We have been doing quite a bit of moralizing about bullying lately. And by we, I mean pretty much everyone. Media. Educators. Parents. Experts. Doctors. Find someone in any way even peripherally associated with children and you’ll probably find someone railing against bullying. That I have an opinion about bullying is therefore not surprising. Nor is the fact that I’m posting about it. In this article , Emily Yoffe interviews Emily Bazelon about her book on bullying, Sticks and Stones. Now, I admittedly have not read the book, but Bazelon makes a mistake that I see repeated across the bullying debate. Namely, that bullying is some kind of A or B equation where you are A Bully (A) or the Bullied (B) and no middle ground exists. Yet this view strikes me as fundamentally flawed. We see bullying as an either/or scenario, when in reality bullies are themselves often bullied and those who are bullied often bully ...
We tried for one, and we ended up with a bushel of fun.