My daughter walks down the street at night with the key between her fingers to defend herself if she is bullied. How I taught her to get away from bullies
I lived and saw enough when I was a teenager, so I did not shy away from teaching my daughter that the street can sometimes be a dangerous place. PHOTO: Shutterstock
When a friend more experienced than me first told me that when you have small children and the problems are small, and when the children grow up the challenges become huge, I didn't believe it. What could be worse than a night of colic? But once my daughter became a teenager, I learned that there are others that are much, much more difficult.
Some of them you can't even manage as a parent because they care about those around you. Bullying, especially in the case of girls, is one of the most difficult situations to anticipate and solve.
I was a teenager at the end of the 90s, the beginning of the 2000s. Times of transition, all-encompassing freedom for everyone. It's just that many misunderstood it and felt that they could do whatever they wanted. He was free to grope girls on the bus, free to masturbate in the bushes near the student dormitories, free to say whatever he wanted on the street to anyone.
And the truth is that those who claimed this freedom did not really have any obstacles, because few considered it wrong to yell at a woman on the street “what would I do to you…”. After all, it was your fault. “What did he do to you? If he liked the way you looked…/ If you wore a short skirt…!” Because of my various and not pleasant experiences, when my daughter became a teenager and wanted to go outside alone I started to panic.
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