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[pamela]

okay, the thread title asks the question on how to stop the bullying.It might be a good idea to look at how we can prevent it. In rereading over the posts, we have painted the bully as merely an evil ogre.Whats behind the ogre? What fear drives this child and subsequent adult to resort to control tactics and demeaning words and violence? it is so easy to label and avoid looking at what suffering may lie underneath. For the child, what pain has been inflicted upon him that he has to lash out at others as away of expressing a form of control, when he is powerless at home. What drives this child to the point of exhibiting the very behaviour that he despises? As the child grows into the teenage years, and hormonal changes occur, how has the expression changed? Violence can easily be expressed under these conditions. The teen enters adulthood and now how does that play out in the work place, in a marriage?
Now the grown bully has a child, what now, will history repeat itself?
Of course intervention can occur at any one of these stages, what types of intervention do you think may change the outcome and essentially stop the bullying?