Teaching Responsibility to Bullies

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Melisa Schenk and on behalf of Expert Village. Today we're going to talk about how to deal with a bully. In this clip we're going to start off talking about the 10 pillars of cultivating character, basically what makes up Spread the Sunshine. The first and only rule of Spread the Sunshine is that you always have a choice. You have a choice, you have a choice if you're going to get up in the morning, you have a choice how you're going to act and react to other people. So when we're thinking about when dealing with a bully or how to deal with a bully, how are you going to deal with that situation? That leads me to our first pillar and that is responsibility. You have a responsibility to yourself. To define that to be reliable, to be accountable for your actions. We all have a responsibility and we have to take 100% responsibility for everything that we say and do and experience in our life. We also have 100% responsibility for deciding what we want out of life. How we want to be treated? How we want to treat other people? So we are responsible for our actions, our feelings, our emotions. How are you going to react to that bully? So it begins with confidence. Confidence is key."