(06-14-2023, 10:18 PM)kdog Wrote: Growing up, I was always the youngest and smallest kid in my class in school because my mom got me in school at a younger age then the rest. I graduated highschool at 17 years old.
So, I was picked on alot , which for the most part I blew off. But when it became physical, my inner viking/ scottish blood got unleashed and this scrappy little kid went crazy with rage and broke a few noses of those who chose to go that route causing them to go crying to mommy even though some of those kids were twice my size.
No one would mess with me after those incidents. Occasionally we would both get a paddling at school , or our parents would have a discussion about it, but after they saw my size they would let it go.
What's different now is lack of discipline and consequences at home and school. If you fight back, you are the one punished , not the bully.
I never understood when I was a child, why some adults called me rebellious. I was a good kid. I was respectful. I would accept any punishment that I thought was valid, and fight like a badger if I did not believe it was right.
Parents seemed to be more communal back then.