The other day I saw a show about youth violence, and a man said that cliques were a fact of life, but some kids were sensitive to the teasing and getting picked on, and responded in violent ways. But he said to get rid of cliques was to get rid of adolescence.
And I thought, do cliques have to consist of teasing and bullying? I know that it often does, but is there a way for kids to bond with one another without having to make someone else suffer?
To me, this kind of thinking, to just accept without question the presence of cruelty as a natural passage of life is the very thing that creates this type of dynamic in the first place.
Create it and justify it as just the way things are.
The problem isn’t that some kids are sensitive to bullying or the inevitable presence of cliques. The problem is adults who don’t question the cruelty found, too often, in cliques or take the responsibility to help create a better environment or code of ethics to live by.
Demian,
~DreamSinger – Healing Songs
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