When Children Are Expected To Have Thicker Skin Than Adults

I once saw this one video giving some “anti-bullying advice” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oKjW1OIjuw). You can watch it if you want to, but it’s essentially some victim blaming nonsense where the guy who’s offering this so-called “advice” — Brooks Gibbs — basically says that the victim should not show a reaction to bullying and that they need to “be strong” and let it go. Interesting, notice how he’s only talking about children here — I have yet to see him talk to the adults (i.e. parents, teachers, etc) who have extremely thin skin and choose to show a very negative reaction over the littlest thing that children do. When is he going to give a presentation telling my parents that they need to “be strong, and not show a negative reaction” when they decide to start hitting elementary school children for squinting during a picture? Or how about when my elementary school teacher decided to start screaming at me like an absolute lunatic all because I said the word “what” with an “attitude” after she gave some extra assignments that I thought were unfair and too over the top?

See, this is exactly what I’m talking about — these certain “adults” (and I use the term lightly) pretty much always want to tell all of this “thick skin and letting go” stuff to children getting insulted and abused, but never to the adults who overreact and show extremely negative reactions to the littlest perception of “disrespect”. Plus, how good does this “don’t show a reaction” stuff actually work? What about all of the times where…