5 Steps to Promote Lasting Change

Is there something you have noticed causes harm to others but keeps happening over and over again? Like bullying.  Like child abuse.  Like domestic abuse.  Do you feel the pain of behavior that is repeated in this way?  Often we don't even recognize the pain until it impacts ourselves.  Empathy is putting ourselves in another's shoes.  Feeling the pain, the excitement, the emotion in another.

"We have to have a revolution so that all young people grasp empathy and practice it. This is the most fundamental revolution that we need to get through." - BILL DRAYTON

Bullying Won't Stop Until . . . . .

"Oh, Mr. Ellis, I was just teasing Tony.  We were just having some fun.  He knows it."

When a bully is caught, he/she often knows exactly what to say to get out of trouble.  The teacher didn't really see what happened, so has to rely upon the reports and the denial of the bully.  What should be done?  Reprimand, once, twice, thrice.....how many times?

In fact, the teacher remembers earlier that day he was making fun of the substitute teacher in much the same way.  It wasn't his fault the substitute is so brain dead, and senile.  She should know she looks like the wicked witch of the east in Wizard of Oz, and not get so bent out of shape when someone mentions it.  The teacher was only trying to make everyone else laugh. He didn't think the substitute would go to the bathroom and cry for the entire lunch period before going to the Principal.

Bullying won't stop......