Stop Bullying: The Power of No Audience #shorts

It means you want to be out of earshot. You don't want the bully to have an audience. Because if you walk up to that bully and he has two or three of his close friends around him and you say, "Hey bully, I don't like what you're doing. Please stop now. When you call me that name, I don't like it. Stop. When you kick my knapsack, I don't like it. Stop. Please now." Clear, short, to the point. If he has two or three friends around him, he's going to feel like I got to put on a show. I got to save face, we call it. I got to save my reputation. So, he's going to want to say to the victim, "Oh yeah?" And then like call you the name right there. And then the two friends laugh. You know, sometimes when somebody makes a joke in a class, the whole class laughs and like the kid feels really good. But sometimes imagine if I was the kid. And imagine in the middle of class, I like raise my hand and I say something funny, right? Like, "Oh yeah, well that's not true because of this and this." And instead of everyone laughing, which makes me feel good, the whole class is just like totally awkward silence. The person feels really silly with what he did. He probably won't do it again. So, the point is if the bully feels like he's going to get a laugh from an audience, a reaction, you're probably going to lose in trying to get him to stop by telling him to stop.