Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Confidence - self assurance


Very few people have the nous to confront bullies or bullying. A does and did.

She was playing in the sandbox in Washington Square Park. She might have been three.

One child was taking toys and pushing sand at another. The typical rotten kid behaviour that half the adults fume about, and the other half declare should be left to the children to sort out. (Three year olds? Hah!) At any rate, A looked over at the other child and said in a deep gravelly voice "Stop picking on her! Now!" A brief pause. "And don't pick on me either."

2 comments:

Ruurd said...

foo! you made me look that up.

Mrs Morley said...

What did you have to look up?