Could This Have been Your Child?
This past Friday, in a suburb of Florida, a 15-year old who had been bullied by fellow classmates, brought a gun with him to school. Although the gun was not real, the teenager wanted to fight back and show those who tormented him, that he wasn't going to be bullied any longer, by anyone. Did his parents know what was going on at school? Had the teenager become emotionally withdrawn from family activites? Did the parents feel that he was just going through a "normal" period in his life that all teens experience at that age? I'm not placing blame on the parents. If you have not read the blogs I posted the last couple of days, and if your a parent, I suggest you read them carefully. And yes, by all means print them off and put them somplace where you can review them.
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