What do you do if you find out that your son or daughter is actually a school bully?
Nothing, is the answer for most parents.
Sure, when your child is the one being bullied, you probably would want to take action, but
if there are no parents taking action against their children for bullying, the problem isn’t
being fixed.
Well one dad from Ohio decided that he wasn’t going to let his daughter get away with bullying
her classmates, and if you’re a parent watching, take note.
What is happening friends this is inform overload where we make the news more entertaining,
I’m charlotte dobre and if you’ve been bullied twerk on that like button for me but
don’t send me the bill for your broken computer.
Bullying is something most of us have experienced, but its also something that very few people
know how to deal with.
A lot of the time, when you’re talking about a younger child that’s a bully, they will
behave a certain way but not realize that their actions have consequences.
Sometimes kids copy behaviour from their parents or someone they look up to.
The problem is, sometimes kids just don’t get that bullying is extremely harmful to
the mental health of others.
Kids that are bullied grow up to have serious self esteem problems.
So how can parents stop their kids from bullying?
Give them a taste of their own medicine.
Matt cox from ohio definitely taught his daughter a lesson thanks to his harsh, yet excellent
punishment for bullying.
Matt Cox has a 10 year old daughter named Kirsten.
Kirsten is apparently a bully, who has lately been acting like she has a sense of entitlement.
Recently she was kicked off the school bus and was told she couldn’t be on it for 3
days.
So Kirsten assumed that her dad would then drive her to school.
That’s when Matt really got mad.
Kirsten thought that taking the bus and getting rides to school was her right, but it wasn’t.
It’s a privilege.
To make matters worse, It was the second time Kirsten got in trouble for bullying this year,
she also was caught name calling and blocking a student from getting off the bus.
So matt made his daughter walk 5 miles to school in the freezing cold as a punishment
for bullying.
Oh and he filmed it and posted it to facebook where it went viral.
The video was called, appropriately ‘life lessons’, and it completely blew up.
At the time of this recording it has 20 million views.
In the video, Matt made it clear that he does not tolerate bullying, its unacceptable.
He used the hashtag, hold kids accountable and stop bullying.
Of course, it was never matt’s intention for the video to go viral, it just sorta happened.
Matt then read out the comments to Kirsten and his other two children, to explain to
them that just because you don’t immediately see how the way you treat someone makes them
feel, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect them.
I guess in a way, by bullying his daughter in good fun like this, and embarrassing her
on social media, he taught her a valuable lesson about what it feels like to be bullied.
There were some people who said that this punishment was pretty harsh, especially since
it was such a cold day.
People argued that Kirsten is going to be bullied now thanks to the video that Matt
posted of her.
Its clear she could have learned bullying from her father.
But I mean, the video doesn’t even show her face, its not like this is going to hurt
her in the long run.
And even if it was a big harsh, its mike’s choice how he wants to discipline his children
and he thinks the punishment worked.
Mike said that he wouldn’t do anything differently.
The punishment opened kirstens eyes as to just how much bullying affects people.
Since matt made his daughter walk to school, Kirsten picks up on the bad behaviour that
she sees on TV and she says to her dad ‘that’s bullying and that’s going to hurt somebodys
feelings.
She also reportedly apologised to the student that she bullied.
But Matt drove beside her the whole time.
He said, parents need to hold their kids accountable.
He’s not going to be another parent that’s going to just brush things under the rug and
say kids will be kids.
I personally feel like this punishment is completely fair and also effective.
Its not the first time a video like this has gone viral.
What do you guys think, was this punishment too harsh?
Let me know in those comments.
For now I’m going to do some comment replies.
Unknown one – charlotte I apologise if this isn’t appropriate at the time but I had
this saving for you until you got back.
Thanks for taking us on that trip with ya even though you didn’t break bread or ask
us what we wanted to do and you had a bunch of guys in the palm of your hands, on an all
girls trip but its all good we still had fun.
You are very welcome and I am glad you enjoyed my trip as much as I did.
Vaqueiii – charlotte is BACK!
No I am not charlotte I am charlottes ghost.
Charlotte is never coming back.
Jonny – charlotte ur looking quite dull today, ur face said that.
Eva Marie – I don’t have real friends in real life but I feel like io is my friend.
Yes we are, forever and always.
Violet Fear – I watch Io when ever Ive finished my class work and the teacher is ok with it,
mostly ones with the potato queen.
I wish my teachers could see me now.
I bet you regret giving me detention now don’t you ms tkachuk.