Nicole Brodeur | Getting the bully to back off | Seattle Times Newspaper
"Most kids are not the bully or the victim," Duffell said. "They're the bystander, whether they're egging the bully on, or just standing there. And they are the easier ones to change."
It only takes one bystander to reduce a bully's impact by standing up and getting others to call out bad behavior. They can do the same online, by not forwarding a hurtful message or link.
Impossible as that sounds, Duffell said, "we are very hopeful."
Indeed, bystanders are speaking up all the time.
If a set of purple sparkly tights and a velvety dress is what makes my baby happy one night, then so be it ... My job as his mother is not ... to dictate what is 'normal' and what is not, but to help him become a good person."
The kind of person who might someday stand up for someone else — whether in work boots or pink heels.
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