I’ve also taught my kids what I learned from my mother: that fighting is a last resort. It’s always better to defuse fights through reason and humor when possible. After those incidents, I didn’t get bullied much. And when someone wanted to start a fight, I learned to de-escalate it just by asking, “What are you doing? Why do you wanna fight and mess up the day? All that’s gonna happen is we’ll both get punished, so let’s see if we can find a better way to work this out.”
