Podcast Episode (00:32:48): Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 220 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers In this podcast We talk about high adventure, answer email questions on a ‘one man show’ and a bullying incident, and share a great Scoutmaster’s Minute. All this and your messages in the mailbag! Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
If we want to end bullying we need to understand it. Author Steve Almond found the boy that bullied him in eighth grade and asked him why. Their conversation helped me appreciate the complexity of bullying from the unusual point of view; that of the bully; Sean Lynden (the bully): ” One other thing I should mention, there are different kinds of bullying and harassment at every different age. But you would not be the first person to accuse me of verbal or mental bullying....
On our backpacking trip this weekend we adults were reminiscing around the campfire. Three of six of us had either not been Scouts or had been Scouts only briefly. The two who had been Scouts for a brief time said that they left Scouting because of hazing. Hazing may be ritual or other activities that use harassment, abuse or humiliation as a way of initiating a person into a group. It can be expressed in practical jokes, bullying, unwanted physical contact or a number of other methods....
Amanda Baggs is an autistic adult who has very eloquently opened the door to her life at Ballstexistenz writes; When I was very young, I didn’t perceive the world the same way other people do, but I did not have a terror of people. My terror of people emerged as bullying got worse and worse. The thing I most learned from school was to fear people and to think of myself as stupid and worthless....
Bullying is a tough nut to crack. Bullying behavior satisfies a bully’s needs on a primal, instinctual level; a level so basic that they often do not realize they are bullying. Bullies can’t necessarily be talked or shamed out of bullying, may not respond for long to regular disciplinary measures (denial of privileges or activities); in fact adult intervention can lead to even more bullying. What, then, is an appropriate response to bullying?...