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Originally Posted by original sin
My 13 year old threatened to take his own life this summer due to bullying. I was too scared to leave him alone for 30 seconds for fear of what he might do. He had been driven into a deep state of despair due to verbal and physical abuse at school.
As a mother i do my best and find my self telling him things like, the offenders are immature and things will improve with age.
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Thanks for sharing. I am a mother too... kids 19 and 17. I can imagine how that must feel like for a mother.
I'm probably gonna piss off the mods and admin over here but... that's what it started to look like to me here. English is not my native tongue, that's a disadvantage, but... The bully, the victim and the silent crowd...
I resent that. I refuse to be a part of the silent crowd. We are all adults here, but that picture came to mind.
I don't like what's going on over here the past few weeks as far as insults and abuse is concerned.
I read some people are afraid to say anything, concerned if they were gonna be the next victim.
I'm not. I state my case untill someone stops me.
I saw CarylB attacked recently, David a while ago... and saw some other stuff I just don't like.
I understand mods use their good judgment on different boards. I do. And if I want to keep posting here, I have to obey the rules, we all have to.
Maybe it's just me... maybe I'm not tolerant enough on the Dutch forum. Small forums are far more easy to control. But abuse like that: final warning. You do it again: I kick you out. No warning after warning, no moving to fight club... no registering again under another account, you're OUT. But that's me, and all people are different.
I don't think I've ever offended anybody on this board. And if I did, it was unintentional and I apologize.
I've never been verbally abused on this forum by anyone either. So... you could say it's not my problem.
No, for me personally, it's not. But I see what's going on and I don't like it. And I DO NOT want to be part of the silent crowd.
R and mods will decide as they see fit. I understand and respect mod's decisions. And then it is my choice not to participate anymore and that has to be respected as well. Not important, I see that too. I have great self esteem, but he he... being one of the over 700 members, one Guppie more or less doesn't count
I respect the mods. Because they have to be impartial and act on gut instinct and/or common sence. I have GREAT respect for R. The admin of a forum with this amount of members.
But in fact, each member deserves respect. And from what I've read: it isn't there.
Sorry for the long post. Just had to say this.