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I will teach my children (when I have them) to stand up for themselves. I will not teach them to bully. I remember my family being active in Karate when I was 7 or 8 years old. The whole family. My mom was an elementary school teacher for 25 years, and she felt it was important to know how to defend myself. My dad was a special ed teacher, as well. he told the story of one time when an 8th grader was constantly picking on a 7th grader, who was much smaller. One day when my dad was on playground duty, the 8th grader was chasing around the 7th grader. They ran by a trashcan tht happened to have a stick in it. The 7th grader picked up the stick, and started beating on the other kid with it. One of the teachers asked my dad if he was goint to stop it. He said, "wait, just wait." After a little while, he stopped the beating, but the older kid never picked on the younger one after that.
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