Faith Filled Family Magazine November 2016 | Page 7
Stand Up
Bullying
AGAINST
BY CHRIS BENTON
B
ullying is a tough subject to hit on and being
a child of God you will
feel the wrath of bullying. In fact, for today’s teens who
stand up for God, they are probably going to be more bullied
than ever before. Being a Christian in a Babylon world is tough
but it can still happen.
What do you do when your
child is bullied? We only have a
4-year-old so I can only talk from
a point of view about what I plan
on saying. I was bullied when I
was young and so was my wife.
People that bully usually have
such low self-images that they
feel they have to bully to make
themselves feel better. They
bring you down in order to raise
themselves up.
I would try to teach my kids to
stand strong no matter what and
be the one that stands up for
others when you see them get
bullied. Many times someone
who is getting bullied just needs
someone to stand up for them.
I would help them see that as a
child of God, we can’t allow people to walk over others because
that is not being Christ-Like.
The sad part of all this bullying is
that adults are actually modeling
the bullying right now, especially
with the election year upon us.
I watch grown adults on Facebook try to bully each other to
see another point of view. The
adult modeling is why bullying in
schools is so rampant right now.
Yes, there has always been bul-
lying and for the most part, there
always will be bullies as long as
humans are involved. However,
maybe things could change if
many parents would watch what
they are saying to another adult
on Facebook and ask themselves what would they say to
their child if their child said that
same thing to a classmate?
I would hope that it would wake
some adults up. This article was
supposed to be about child bullies, but to be honest, the adults
are the biggest part of the problem with child bullies. The child
in most cases learns to bully
from somewhere and for the
most part, they learn it from their
parents. In most cases, it is probably the dad.