A Psychological Solution to Bullying

Bullycide seems to be on the rise. There may be two reasons for this. One is well known. The other isn't. But we need to know what that reason is if we hope to stop these tragedies. Read More

If schools end up having no money left for education, we can thank our beloved anti-bullying laws. Even when the bullying lawsuit is dismissed, it costs us hundreds of thousands of dollars. But the schools don't mind because they are paying with Other People's Money. Read More

It was with great excitement that I came upon a new article this morning by Prof. Helene Guldberg who, to the best of my knowledge, is the only academic psychologist in the world that has dared to criticize the anti-bullying movement or, as she aptly calls it in this article, anti-bullying industry. Read More

If you are a bullying researcher with the courage to buck the popular paradigm and are interested in bringing to the schools of the world the solution they have been desperately seeking, this just may be your golden opportunity. Read More

On Friday, July 22, the most horrific non-wartime shooting spree in history was committed in the peace-loving country of Norway. Read More

To determine if our actions are moral, we should ask ourselves if we would like to be treated the way we are treating the other person if we were in their position. Unfortunately, most of what we do to kids once we label them bullies we would not want done to us if we were in their situation. What we are doing to them is not moral. Read More

This is an installment in a series called "Ten Principles for Moral Discipline" Read More

Now is the worst time in history to be a school principal or administrator. Not only have state governments passed anti-bullying laws that hold schools legally responsible for accomplishing the impossible, the Federal government has thrown its big guns into the vicious attack against schools, too. Read More

This is an installment in a series called "Ten Principals for Moral Discipline"

The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions. I absolutely love this maxim. Whoever came up with it is an incredible genius. It helps explain most of the problems in the world. Read More

An article in this weekend's Boston Globe starts out declaring, "After decades of research, no one has yet found a way to reduce bullying in US schools." The writer then goes on to pin his hopes on a forthcoming study of an anti-bullying program that encourages student bystanders to stand up for victims–an approach which the writer correctly notes has already been shown to be ineffective. Read More

Governments all over the world have been passing school anti-bullying laws with the expectation that they will make children safe from bullying in school. Rather than schools becoming safer with the passage of these laws, they apparently are having a reverse effect. Bullying is escalating in the world's schools and many schools are finding themselves defendants in anti-bully lawsuits. Read More

The most dangerous ideas are not the ones that sound obviously bad, but the ones that sound obviously good [paraphrasing Charles Murray in What it Means to be a Libertarian]. When an idea sounds obviously good, no one challenges it and it catches on like wildfire. One such idea is accountability. Read More

I often say, "The place where no one bullies anyone is Heaven, and you have to die to get in." We are trying to get rid of bullying from our schools, but we are failing because we are alive, and living people are not angels. And the harder we try to force kids to stop being bullies, the bigger of a problem bullying becomes. Read More

Before I begin this article, I want it to be clear that there are few people who care about race relations more than I do. And please don’t accuse me of lack of sensitivity to race issues. Most of my relatives lost their lives in Europe during World War II for the terrible “crime” of being Jews. Read More