{"id":121111,"date":"2023-01-28T00:33:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T05:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=121111"},"modified":"2023-01-27T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T00:26:08","slug":"parents-dont-let-your-kids-grow-up-to-be-crybullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/parents-dont-let-your-kids-grow-up-to-be-crybullies\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents, don&#8217;t let your kids grow up to be crybullies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been quite a few critiques of teachers of late (including from yours truly), but looking at it from the other side of the coin this time, if there&#8217;s just <em>one<\/em> thing teachers despise, it&#8217;s dealing with a crybully.<\/p>\n<p>Crybullies are just that &#8212; they bully others relentlessly, but when finally called on it (verbally or physically) they resort to bawling like an innocent newborn.<\/p>\n<p>They typically are the offspring of parents who&#8217;ve never said the word &#8220;no&#8221; to them, or, if they have, look the other way when their kids outright ignore them.<\/p>\n<p>And these parents are the ones who are quickest to complain about a teacher or administrator who had the temerity to discipline their child for misbehavior. &#8220;That&#8217;s not the story <em>my child<\/em> told me!&#8221; is a common refrain. After all, why would their child lie to them? Children and adolescents <em>never<\/em> lie!<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week a video made the rounds on Twitter which shows an alleged 10-year-old crybully harassing the hell out of a man who allegedly was trying to call the kid&#8217;s mother about his behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The crybully begins by standing in the gent&#8217;s way (reportedly the park manager) in a &#8220;let&#8217;s fight&#8221; manner in what seems to be an attempt to thwart the man&#8217;s call. When the man is finished the call, the little punk begins pushing the manager in an effort to halt his forward progress.<\/p>\n<p>When <em>that<\/em> doesn&#8217;t work, the punk resorts to physical violence &#8212; punching the man in his side. The man eventually reacts &#8212; by grabbing the kid by the neck and tossing him to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>In crybully fashion, the punk begins wailing &#8220;HE HIT ME!!&#8221; complete with plenty of faux bawling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rivercitypost.com\/child-taunts-and-punches-man-until-he-gets-dropped-and-the-internet-is-divided\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to a report<\/a>, the foul-mouthed youth and a friend allegedly were wreaking all sorts of havoc, &#8220;terrorizing other kids at the park, at a splash pad and in the playground for several hours.&#8221; In addition, the person filming the whole scene allegedly was a victim of the punk and his pal; they had cut into his path while he was driving and then pelted his car with rocks after being &#8220;told off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The driver informed the park manager, who then told the punk and his friend to leave the park. After cursing the manager out, they appeared to comply &#8230; but then &#8220;threw down their bikes, and came back for more.\u201d Here&#8217;s what followed:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Full Video For Context: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GbFDkT1WJQ\">pic.twitter.com\/GbFDkT1WJQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fight Haven (@FightHaven) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FightHaven\/status\/1617344069851836418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Note the punk immediately gets back up when he has more of an audience and begins his pre-thrown-to-the-ground antics, cursing at a woman with numerous F-bombs and invoking &#8220;child abuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/no-consequences-for-student-misbehavior-leads-to-classroom-turmoil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No consequences for student misbehavior leads to classroom turmoil<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police eventually arrived and asked the manager if he wanted to press charges. He declined.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why this little hellion is the way he is: His mother reportedly arrived to &#8220;apologize&#8221; for her son&#8217;s behavior, but later took to social media with a truncated video clip of <em>only<\/em> the park manager tossing her son to the ground. She also included the manager&#8217;s <em>name and address.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This begs the question what sort of behavior this little thug displays at school &#8212; and what his teachers can do about it.<\/p>\n<p>Although most school districts have some sort of &#8220;don&#8217;t touch a student&#8221; policy, that doesn&#8217;t mean teachers have to sit\/stand there and take what a kid like this dishes out. And if an administrator tells a teacher he\/she <em>does<\/em> have to take it, that teacher look for another school pronto.<\/p>\n<p>This kid&#8217;s future may entail something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qHUjB0V91wQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like this<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/george.rigas.58\/videos\/10158641480841670\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this,<\/a> hanging with similarly raised youth who never heard the word &#8220;no&#8221; and whose whims were catered to 24-7 by their parents (who were probably mesmerized by the latest progressive fad <em>du jour).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, since I&#8217;m 6&#8217;3&#8243; 195 lbs, out-of-control students in my class thought twice (or more) about doing to me what the crybully in this video did to the park manager. But what about a much smaller guy &#8230; or a 4&#8217;10&#8221; female teacher? They certainly don&#8217;t have to stand there letting a kid continually push them &#8230; and then <em>punch<\/em> them, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanODonnellShow\/status\/1617550454296043520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a day and age<\/a> when even elementary schoolers might be armed with some type of weapon.<\/p>\n<p>If the crybully in the video thinks <em>really really<\/em> hard about this experience, then in the long run the park manager may, just may, have saved him from a world of hurt much worse than what he experienced here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/teacher-shortage-then-allow-teachers-to-discipline-students-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teacher shortage? Then allow teachers to discipline students again<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Shutterstock.com<\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children who&#8217;ve never heard the word &#8216;no&#8217; are in for a rude awakening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":775,"featured_media":26366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367],"tags":[18717,4399,12975,45631,21479,1208,940,1856],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Crybullies.Shutterstock.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-vvp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121111"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121464,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121111\/revisions\/121464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}