Father forces son to hold pink 'I am a bully' sign on Texas

Godfather.

I told my son at a very early age if a bully picks on you don't say a word then sock them right on the tip of the nose and they will be your best friend the next day.....whioch reminds me of a great story, while i was working in mexico my son was about 4 or 5 years old, while i was on the phone to my wife i could my son crying so i said to my wife put him on the phone then i ask "what's up buddy ?" he said the older boy next door had hit him so I said "he's bigger than you buddy so pick something up and wack him with it....so a few min. later I talking to my wife and I could hear a blood curdeling screem and wife sez "oh no R just hit J on the head with his bat" and I said yes i told him to...(the bat was plastic) but J never messed tith R again


Godfather.

hedonist

Thirty Bills Unpaid wrote:

A kid is capable of overcoming both a smack and an embarrassment. My pops used to smack me quite a bit- I turned out alright and I love the guy dearly. He was a good dad. I understood why I was getting smacked- I deserved it to be honest.

My god, you sound exactly like my husband talking about his mom :P

He speaks of it often - when he was a little tyke and ran straight into the street while playing, no looking for cars. His mother made sure that mistake happened only once.

Me, I got a (light) spanking just one time from my father. Talk about humiliation - I never wanted to experience that again.

Anyway, this isn't a thread about spanking, per se; it's one about a parent caring enough to go to certain lengths to teach their children.

Jason P

When I was a kid, I stole a slot machine piggy bank from a friend of our family and my parents caught me. They made me go apologize and perform chores as punishment. It was humiliating ...

I've never stolen anything since that lesson.

brianlux

I'd say because dad stood out there with him this was not a bullying dad. As a kid, I hated being bullied. I say, good show dad!

backseatLover12

The best way to deal with bullies is to let them know you won't be bullied. Obviously that parent is doing the work for his kids victims. Right on!

Last-12-Exit

justam wrote:

Pap wrote:

I am a bully. Honk! If you hate bullies.

A Texas father is refusing to apologize for forcing his child to hold a pink "I am a bully" sign because he says that "we don't need another Columbine." When Jose Lagares found out that his son got in trouble for bullying in his fourth grade class, he sent the boy out to the intersection of Ft. Hood Street and W. Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Ft. Hood on Tuesday.

KCEN captured video of the fourth grader holding a pink sign that read: "I am a bully. Honk if you hate bullies." "Bullying is also a form of public humiliation," Lagares told the station. "Maybe he understands that when he humiliates someone publicly that doesn't feel good."

"Hopefully he'll take that with him so the next time he tries to bully someone he'll think about it twice."

In an interview with KCEN on Thursday, Lagares said that he had received negative criticism, but he did not regret punishing his son.

"I refuse to allow my child to be somebody else's pain," he explained. "Ya know, we don't need another Columbine, and we don't need another Solomon Harris. Ya know, we don't need that to happen, and I refuse for my child to be the cause of that."


Clever! Kudos to the father! :thumbup:

In my opinion, the child has learned how to be a bully from his father's behavior.

What a way to treat a 4th grader! Talk about being bullied by your dad! Geez. :wtf:

If someone lives in a home where NO ONE is allowed to mistreat family members then being kind is the norm.

I can definitely see where your coming from, but I'd have to disagree with you in this case. I'm sure niether of us know these people personally, but based on the fact that the father is actually taking some responsibility and punishing the child for poor behavior, I'd say IMO its not an "I learned it from watching you" case.