So, your kid is the neighborhood bully? You'd better nip that in the bud unless your goal is to raise the next Slobodan Milosevic.
Does that sound crazy? Yeah, kind of, but Barbara Coloroso doesn't think it is that big of a stretch. Coloroso says it is “actually a short walk from bullying to hate crimes to genocide.” She says that bullying is not so much about being angry as much as it is about contempt. Once you are able to marginalize a person as someone beneath you who doesn't count and you can harass at will, you can feel that way about a whole group.
Scary? Definitely. Fixable? Certainly.
Coloroso says that if we can raise our children with a sense of uniqueness and respect for the differences between other people we will all be parenting in the right direction.
