Parents need to be very careful about how they frame situations surrounding bullying and teasing amongst children because you can be damn sure they will take whatever they hear with them into adulthood.
"I immediately cut her off. I said, 'No! We are not teaching my eight-year-old daughter that when a boy treats you like sh*t, it means that he likes you,'"
"She is not learning that garbage. And then I launched into the real reason why kids bully. He feels unseen at home in some capacity, and he's internalized that. He doesn't like himself very much."
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