Bullies

 Bully - Bullying is the act of intentionally causing harm to others, through verbal harassment, physical assault, or other more subtle methods of coercion such as manipulation.

Last night I came home from a good night of bowling only to find out that one of my boys is being bullied at school.Nothing pisses me off more than a bully, but as with all bullies nowadays they run in groups.Unfortunately one of the bullies is a Cub Scout in my sons den even!When this kid is at his den meeting, but at school evidently at school he has his own little posse that he likes to run with and picking on others.No where in the Cub Scout promise that it says I promise to tease other people for any reason.

The fact that a Cub Scout is doing this really chaps my ass beyond all belief.I've seen this Scout act up at pack meetings and personally had to to make him stop acting up.His grandfather brings him to the Den meetings and pretty much lets him get away with murder.The den leader is usually beside himself and pulling his hair after awhile.I had a talk to his grandfather at one point and asked him to help reel his grandson in.He's disrupting the meetings and the rest of the den.After that he made him behave while I was there, but now that I'm bowling on the night of the Den meeting I've been receiving reports that he's back to his old ways.

When I was a kid I was bullied pretty fierce by one guy who had a everything in the world against me for no other reason than the fact he didn't like me.But he was one person who didn't need back up due to his size and strength.But 3 kids on one is the fact that they know that they have no power alone against one of my boys, so they have to team up.When I was a Den Leader for the Cub Scouts I taught the Scouts that no bully has power over you if you ignore them.If they hit you, push you, or call you names walk away.The only time you should fight back is if your in danger or you can not make it to an adult safely.

We got the names of the boys in question and took them to the principal so that he can take care of the problem and call the parents of the offending kids.He also told my son that he can't help him if he doesn't let him know who is doing all the bullying.