Tuesday, May 3, 2011

There are the Victims of Bullies....and there are the Nightmares of Bullies......

Well, I lamented earlier on Bullying, which was heartfelt because my eldest daughter spent a big portion of this past year being victimized by it. Things have gotten a lot better with my daughter's self esteem finally being nurtured by her Mother and I to a robust and decreasingly delicate pillar in her life......

.....And then I have my littlest daughter....my delicate little flower.......who MAY or MAY not have been involved as the victim of a bad bullying incident during recess recently (in case the Principal is reading this).

Allegedly, a much larger boy than her wanted her recess snack - so he grabbed her leg and wrenched it up painfully, causing her to allegedly fall violently and painfully onto her back on the pavement of the playground.

She had the breath knocked out of her and laid there in shock for a second before getting up to challenge the offender. When she reached for her snack, he pushed her back again.

Then, she may or may not have wound up and socked him hard in the mouth - possibly splitting his lip (or it could have happened when he walked into a door) and shocking him into running away, crying out of shock and embarrassment.

My "delicate little flower" then noticed that she might or might not have split her knuckle open on what could have been his teeth - or possibly a "graze from the swing set on the playground"....and she marched into the school and inquired as to where she could obtain a rabies shot.

I only discovered the above that might or might not have happened upon my inquiries that I made of her when I came home from work and noticed her carefully washing her knuckles in the sink and then applying antibiotic ointment (she is quite familiar with wound care after having been patched up no few times from various accidents on mountain hikes, etc.)

So I suppose that there are some people that can be the natural victims of bullies....and there are those that can be the natural nightmares of bullies.......

I'm still laughing.....