A father resorts to a novel form of “tough love” to teach his child not to be a bully.
Jose Lagares of Kileen, Texas had tried numerous ways to teach his fourth-grade son to stop being a bully, but when they all seemed to fail, he came up with a novel approach — he made him stand at a busy intersection holding a sign which read “I’m a bully. Honk if you hate bullies.”
But when a number of people responded angrily to the punishment, Lagares went back to the same intersection with a new sign of his own, which read ”I’m not sorry. Honk to stop bullying.”
According to KCENTV, Lagares explained his take on the issue: ”I refuse to allow my child to be somebody else’s pain. Ya know, we don’t need another Columbine, and we don’t need another Solomon Harris. Ya know, we don’t need that to happen, and I refuse for my child to be the cause of that.”
The boy’s teacher told Lagares that his son apologized to the boy he had been bullying when he returned to school.