Answer: Your kid being a bully versus being bullied
Clues: “Mean” and “Youth”
A serious poll asked parents: “Which would be a worse realization: Finding out that your kid is violently bullied at school? Or finding out that your kid is a violent bully at school?” And there weren’t any easy answers.
66% said it would be worse to find out their kid was a violent bully. 32% said it would be worse to learn that their kid was being violently bullied.
The comments show a very real struggle.
A parent said, “My kid being a violent bully would be a harsher realization about my own parenting and a more difficult follow-up conversation to start fixing the issue.” Others agreed, saying the kid would’ve learned it from them.
On the flipside, a parent said, “It’s definitely worse if they are being bullied. Schools are often useless with that stuff, and as a parent you are even more helpless, because you can’t do anything to the bullies.”
Someone else added, “As someone who was heavily bullied, finding out my kid was a bully would be so shameful and humiliating.”