By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.
Interpretation
Children often endure bullying silently until they feel they can reach out for help.
This quote emphasizes the often unseen struggles children face with bullying before they finally muster the courage to reach out to an adult for support. It suggests that by the time they seek assistance, they have already been suffering in silence for an extended period, highlighting the importance of awareness and proactive intervention in addressing bullying.
In practice
During a school assembly about bullying, this quote can be used to emphasize the importance of reaching out.
Well, I think having your kids see you role model behavior of dignity when it's hard, when you're upset, when you want to confront somebody but you don't want to and you're nervous about it, when you are having moments where abuse of power is coming on to you. I think it's really important for kids to see how you handle that.
Many kids who are bullied feel helpless. Sometimes, they think the only thing they can do is hope the problem will go away. But there are things you can do to get some control in the situation and it starts with developing a strategy and a support system.
We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.
this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.
Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.
Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.
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