MonkeyFun 620 10
08/13/2003 08:33 AM

Good for you Trae!



My mom used to do the same for me when I was a wee little one. But she went straight for the parents of the bully. Nobody Frosted with my mom or her daughter.



Keep lil Trae safe.

seventyseven 0 9
08/13/2003 08:35 AM

I agree, especially for the fact that she didn't know lil trae was yours so nothing bad can come of it 'cept she may get a good arse whippin from her folks ..... then again, she may not. Fair play to you super mom!!!

Trae, Mistress of the Webinet 156,785 17
08/13/2003 08:36 AM

I got off the bus and looked for the parents. I'm sure I had that "Lets get ready to rumble" look in my eye.



Maybe I scared them.

Daggy 86,684 14
08/13/2003 08:47 AM

I would have got on the bus.... gone straight up to the girl and whispered in her ear.... 'I know where you live.... and I've got knives..... and lemon juice.'







heh.... I love scaring stroppy kids.

Cravin Moorhead 3,307 12
08/13/2003 09:27 AM

It wouldn't have anything to do with mini-Trae calling her "Niglet" would it?

Eric Nguyen 23,705 11
08/13/2003 10:10 AM

Start checking lil Trae's backpack for small handguns and pipebombs.

Lunchbox 14,650 10
08/13/2003 10:27 AM

h - profit!

RapidChickens 286,326 61
08/13/2003 10:29 AM

This is one of the main reasons we home school.



*Puts on flame retardant underwear.*



Oh and before anyone says, but your kids will be wimps, both my kids have the rudiments of karate under their belts and could probably kick the big kid's ass, but I have a hard time forcing a child to have to go through that. I remember hating it. I hated it even when I won the fights.



And I see and know the kids your kids are going to school with. We keep them in respite care for the foster system. Many are near monsters and drugged to the very edge. The doctors constantly change their meds, and this always causes "episodes". And the law says the public schools HAVE to take them and educate them in with your kids.



For those of you with no other options, I feel for you and understand your frustration.

Feeble, Knight of the Old Code 32,400 15
08/13/2003 10:29 AM

Bullies will find a way to bully. It's what they do.



I doubt the school punished her severely enough to make the big kid not want to bully little kids.



Public schools remain lessons in dealing with horrible people who hate you. Much like the InterWeb, but you can't turn off your school and take a break.

RapidChickens 286,326 61
08/13/2003 10:30 AM

You did the right thing at the time, Trae. I would have been tempted to smack the kid and take my lumps in court.

HemLloyd 48,662 14
08/13/2003 10:33 AM

Bullies suck! There was a great TV ad here in Canada where a fat guy was walking through an office and everyone was bullying him, body checking him into the wall, stealing his luch, patting his belly calling him fatty. You felt so terrible for the guy, just from the look on his face and then the voice over said something like "Adults couldn't put up with this kind of bullying, why do we expect our kids to?"

Feeble, Knight of the Old Code 32,400 15
08/13/2003 10:36 AM

My opinion remains that public schooling can only work if you have about 1 adult for every 5 kids.



Alert, attentive, willing to step in and stop teasing / abuse / fighting adults.



Otherwise, know that some innocent kid is being put through hell today at any school you care to name. Probably several.

Trae 156,785 17
08/13/2003 10:38 AM

People who know me, know I'm not a complacent parent. The principal knows me on a first name basis. I make sure to be involved in every aspect of my daughter's school.



I was bullied when I was a kid and REFUSE to allow that to happen to my daughter. I'll let her fight most of her own battles, but no one lays a hand on my kid - except me.



Damn, I'm still pissed.

Daggy 86,684 14
08/13/2003 10:44 AM

Trae's got da mad motherin' skillz yo.

jellytot 3,504 11
08/13/2003 10:46 AM

Unfortunately my little darling is one of those blue-eyed, blonde haired menaces. She looks like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, but don't Frost with her.

We were at the playground one day and she was on the climbing frame and some kid wouldn't let her climb up. So before I could intervene she bit his leg, and when he jumped down to hit her (bear in mind we are talking about sub 5 year olds here) she punched him right in the mouth and knocked him down. At which point I managed to get my Shakespeare together and tell her off before the other kid's parents got involved.



All the time though I was thinking - I wish I could still get away with punching people like that. It was a fantastic punch.

Daggy 86,684 14
08/13/2003 10:50 AM

You bad father!

Trae 156,785 17
08/13/2003 11:01 AM

Yeah, similar incident with my daughter when she was a mere toddler. Silently, I was saying "good girl, nice shot."



Kids are meaner now.

RapidChickens 286,326 61
08/13/2003 11:16 AM

OH, were telling out kid's in fight's stories? Cool.



Young Chicken Jr. (about age 4 at the time) was at the skating rink with us and I turned around and he was missing. That always scares the crap out of you. Wifey and I immediatly go into military sector search mode. No where to be seen in the open.



Then I see a group of about 12 kids about 8 or nine years old in a circle and looking down at something. I get over there double quick and there is a kid down on his knees to get eye level with Chick jr. and teasing him for his laughing friends. In the 3 seconds it took me to close in, I watched the upset, tear brimmed scowl on Chick Jr.'s face turn to abject rage, saw him slow motion ball up his little fist, and dot the big kid right in the nose, putting him back on his ass.



I got there just as the kid realized what had happened and started to pull himself back up. I pulled C. Jr. out of it as the kid's friends burst into laughter at him and before he could respond.



I grinned all the way to the car.

Feeble, Knight of the Old Code 32,400 15
08/13/2003 11:18 AM

When one of my boys was in 2nd grade some bullies (5th & 6th) were picking on one of his friends.



So he ran up and decked a kid. My boy fractured the bones in his right hand - a classic boxer's break - and the bully had to go home for the day.



I gave him the standard "Don't fight" lecture, but I was secretly proud of him. Second grade, weighed all of 50 pounds, and laid a kid literally twice his size out on his back.

Trae, Mistress of the Webinet 156,785 17
08/14/2003 08:15 AM

Today, as we're all waiting for the bus we are holding our breath to see if the troublemaker shows up. Right before the bus gets there, she walks up - no parents.



She calmly got to the back of the line to get on the bus. No shoving like she did yesterday. As the kids boarded the bus it was like a revolution!!!



All the little ones banded together and got every seat on the back of the bus. Spreading themselves out evenly so that there was no chance the bully could claim a seat as her own. The bus driver escorted the troublemaker to the front seat... where she'll sit for a while as punishment.



Strength in numbers, people! Rise up against bullies everywhere!!

Lila, the ALL POWERFUL 78,550 13
08/14/2003 08:26 AM

When I see the stories in the news nowadays I'm more and more grateful my parents put me in private school.



I spent exactly one year in one of the best public schools in town (which isn't saying much for this city) and I vividly remember Candy - a HUGE black girl with an even bigger afro. She picked on anyone that didn't belong to her race and we all h8d her. Never had to put up with any Shakespeare trash like her in private school since, fortunately, her parents couldn't afford to send her to one. Not that she would last more than a week in one anyway.

She's prolly knocked up with 6 kids already and sitting in a project apartment smoking weed and counting her food stamps right now.

When I was a senior in high school we didn't have metal detectors and problems with drugs.

Our biggest scandal was ants in the lockers. Those were the days.

Manhattan Fucking Fever 11,939 13
08/14/2003 08:31 AM

If you don't teach her to fight for herself then she's going to rely on someone else her whole life, drop out of college, strip her way through community college marry an alcoholic assqipe spend her days oh wait we're not talking about Trae? Shiiiiiiit.

Trae, Mistress of the Webinet 156,785 17
08/14/2003 08:35 AM

I will recount a particularly bad time I had in middle school:



My Dad had just died. I was 12. A girl who always bullied me: "Mary Jean" a brute of a girl, who looked more like a guy then anything came up to me randomly and pushed me and said "Your Dad was a mother-Froster, I'm glad he's dead."



You can imagine how that made a little girl feel.



These days with the drugs and the weapons, I hope that's as bad as it gets for my girl.

Trae, Mistress of the Webinet 156,785 17
08/14/2003 08:36 AM

Manny, my daughter is capable of taking care of herself for the most part. She's learning Aikido. But she's petite, like I said and when someone literally twice her size (or three times) picks on her, a little help was called for.



Shut up you, I never stripped!















For money.

Manhattan Fucking Fever 11,939 13
08/14/2003 08:37 AM

God dammmit I meant highschool, your daughter would never make it to collegte.

Lila, the ALL POWERFUL 78,550 13
08/14/2003 08:38 AM

Trae, I like to think that, if there is a hell, people like that are going straight to it. And soon.

Trae, Mistress of the Webinet 156,785 17
08/14/2003 08:38 AM

collegte



You either?



HA!

Manhattan Fucking Fever 11,939 13
08/14/2003 08:40 AM

I'm drunk, UP YOURS, WOMAN.

Trae, Mistress of the Webinet 156,785 17
08/14/2003 08:40 AM

Yeah right, get a new excuse homie.

Manhattan Fucking Fever 11,939 13
08/14/2003 08:43 AM

oo da la lee oo da la lee golly what a day

Trae, Mistress of the Webinet 156,785 17
08/14/2003 08:44 AM

I love you Manny!



I'm off to work!



Lata!

Feeble, Iraqi Weapons Inspector #27 32,400 15
08/14/2003 10:48 AM

If you are going to compell people via force of law to send their kids to school, you had better be prepared to spend the time and money to make it a safe and rewarding experience.



Which we all know it isn't.



The system is BROKEN.

Whistler 185,889 44
08/14/2003 03:13 PM

When my nephew was starting junior high school, he was a bully magnet. Glasses, braces, honors classes, clarinet, chess club - your classic nerd.



My sister was against intervention or retaliation, and the kid's father is useless, so I decided to help him out.



I advised him that his problems would stop if he just hit one kid, one time, but that he had to make the kid bleed. A quick jab to the nose, not too hard, would provide plenty of blood and excitement without too much damage.



So the kid followed my advice and popped a bully in the nose. Nosebleed, school nurse, principal, 3-day suspension, blah, blah, blah. The kid even stood up and didn't tell his mother it was my idea.



No bully picked on him for the rest of his 7 years in school!



He's up in Dannemora now, doing 3 years for assault.

RapidChickens 286,326 61
08/14/2003 03:19 PM

Excellent punchline. I completely missed it coming.

Declan McManus, A Miramax Film 131,869 36
08/14/2003 03:20 PM

I remember that.

Whistler 185,889 44
08/14/2003 10:06 PM

Oh Shakespeare! Declan, don't tell anyone else in the family that I put him up to it and I won't tell anyone about your nipple. Except R. Michael. I already told him. Sorry.



(Power just came back on here in the northern NYC suburbs after about 6 hours out.)

Virnomine 79,386 11
08/14/2003 10:10 PM

another good one would have been a 2x4 to the head, head wounds always bleed the most. that would have really freaked the kids out.



Of course that would mean taking lumber to school, but that's a small price to pay...

Rufus the Pubah 56,794 18
08/14/2003 10:58 PM

You did right Trae.

Niglet, Jr. Klan, or Baby Beaner, they're all bullies. Your sweet innocent little offspring will learn soon enough that once you've popped one of the little ballsteads in the eye, the rest will leave you alone.

Jay Stevens 1,010 16
08/14/2003 11:07 PM

Trae, you do whatever you have to in order to keep the sweetest cutest little girl on earth safe from evil.



MY KID IN FIGHT STORIES:



Oldest son (was 7 yrs old at the time) on the ball field and was constantly enduring crap from this little smartass wiry kid named Dillon. Anyway, after he made a play and didn't get the out, Dillon continued to harrass him. My son (who at 7 yrs old was throwing a 38 mph fastball) turned around and let Dillon have it square in the stomach with one of those fastballs from 4 feet away.



heh.. the kid doubled over and hit the deck. I had to do the obligatory jumping up and yelling and scolding.



I've always told both of my boys: If you throw the first punch I will pull the belt out and take them to the shed. If the other kid throws the first punch, you fight like hell til he's bleeding. You finiShakespeare. Told them I would back them up all the way to the principal's office.



Oldest is now 12 yrs old and nearly 5'9", he's got a good 4-6" on most of the kids, no problems with bullies.

Livewire 78,229 13
08/15/2003 04:43 AM

... he's got a good 4-6" on most of the kids, no problems with bullies.



Nothing puts the fear of god into the rest of your gym class like a huge penis.

Qunicey Hermingshire-Apon-Wy George Charles Smythe 14,139 11
08/15/2003 04:45 AM

You know, all the gab kids are beasts. The fight I'd like to see is between all the kids mentioned in this thread. It looks like a real blood bath...

jellytot 3,504 11
08/15/2003 05:37 AM

My kid would be too busy asking a million questions about why everyone else's kids have funny accents.



She only stops asking questions long enough to breath in or sleep.

Neepneep, Como conolo quieres? 35,066 15
08/15/2003 05:45 AM

I once threw a chair at someone.

Neepneep, Como conolo quieres? 35,066 15
08/15/2003 05:49 AM

How old is lil Trae?

Frogpop 173,148 25
08/15/2003 06:01 AM

Old enough to duck a flying chair, you wacko.

Trae, Mistress of the Webinet 156,785 17
08/15/2003 07:16 AM

Lil Trae is 9 1/2yrs old... and the "sweetest, cutest little girl in the world" according to Jay...and he's always right. Hehe

Trae, Mistress of the Webinet 156,785 17
08/15/2003 07:17 AM

world/earth same diff

Virnomine 79,386 11
08/15/2003 09:15 AM

well glad to see out little kiwi minors have managed to log back in...hooray!

Declan McManus, At finer stores everywhere 131,869 36
08/16/2003 03:26 AM

SHAKESPEARE, Whistler. I cannot FROST-ING believe you told that busy dean about my nipple rings.



I wanted to tell her.