I sometimes feel like I'm in some alternate universe when I read stuff like this:
> These new findings indicate that interventions should also focus on supporting victims of bullying and helping them build resilience;
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> These studies suggest that public health interventions could aim at preventing children from becoming the target of bullying behaviours from an early age.
Have we considered ways to make bullies not want to bully? That seems way more productive to me. I'm mean, I'm all for teaching kids resilience and self-reliance, but at some point, we have to get to the root of the problem, which is the bullies and why they want to bully other kids and stop trying to just fix the kids who get bullied.
> These new findings indicate that interventions should also focus on supporting victims of bullying and helping them build resilience;
...
> These studies suggest that public health interventions could aim at preventing children from becoming the target of bullying behaviours from an early age.
Have we considered ways to make bullies not want to bully? That seems way more productive to me. I'm mean, I'm all for teaching kids resilience and self-reliance, but at some point, we have to get to the root of the problem, which is the bullies and why they want to bully other kids and stop trying to just fix the kids who get bullied.