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Thank you, Dr. Laura. Hi. So I'm calling about a situation that I would like your opinion on. How would you handle this? Because I'm starting to feel complicit in this situation. I have a brother-in-law who has had a very traumatic childhood, and I believe it's left him quite emotional. You know what? Wait, stop. Tell me about this without saying anything about his childhood as though that...
eliminated his responsibility and ability to behave properly today. So leave that out. Okay. Okay. I will. Start all over again. Hi, Kelly. Welcome to the program.
Hello, Dr. Laura. I would like your opinion on how to handle this situation with my brother-in-law. So when we gather at family gatherings, which is usually when we do see him, we don't have much of a relationship with him outside of family gatherings. He has in the past belittled and berated those attending adults. And in that way, we've kind of let him
say his piece. No one has really reacted to it. As of late, he is now doing this to his daughter, who is 20, so I guess she is an adult. She's still living under their roof, but he's belittling her. And it happens consecutively, I guess, for the last five, six gatherings we've had. The conversation tends for him to migrate there, and he's
again, belittles her, bullies her a little bit. And I'm at the point now where it's like... That's your description. That's your description. Yeah. But you're not telling me what he is actually doing. What is he actually saying? Okay.
They'll tell her, you shouldn't be eating that. You're not doing enough with your life. You're lazy. You get up late. You should move out. Sometimes she'll come back at him and say, like, you're not being very nice. I don't like you all the time. And then he'll say, well, I don't like you very much. Why don't you leave? So that's the example. And why doesn't she at 20?
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How mature could I have been then? Yeah. First of all, you asked what I would do. Normally, I never answer that question. However, I think it's relevant here, so I will. In front of me, me, and I'm not sure this is correct of me, but I know me. In front of me, if I heard that, I'd be in somebody's face.
going, why are you such a nasty son of a bitch? You've been doing this for 20 years. All of you people stand by and let this happen to everybody. And I think you're all a bunch of weak, spineless jerks
to allow him to brutalize everybody because you're all too gutless. I don't know what you're afraid of. He doesn't have $10 million that you're hoping he will leave to you. So I don't know what the motivation is. But I'm not standing by. You're a jerk and you need to leave this house now, especially for my house. If I'm in somebody else's house, I would say that, but I can't get away with it because it's not my house. But I would have taken it on. I always do. I never let anything like that go by in my presence. Never. I'm not built that way.
I don't wait years. I wait seconds. And I have done that since I was a teeny tiny, quick story. I'm about 12 and I have this girlfriend and we're walking outside of school. I remember it vividly, but I don't remember the exact time. And some girls in a girl gang, in those days, girl gangs, you know, looked tough and had leather jackets and
you know, but it was harmless. Nobody had weapons. Nobody got hurt, really. You know, it was none of that. It was sort of silly. But girl gangs, and they walked around being tough, and there was always the leader of the gang. And she was a big girl, and I've always been kind of, we'll call it petite. And suddenly, and I don't know what it was about, because the head of the girl little team and my friend must have had a little history, because she starts threatening her. An idiot face here, even at
10 years old, 12 years old. I don't remember. I just remember I was very young. I was scared out of my mind, terrified, but I opened my mouth anyway. And I said, don't talk to my friend that way. And this girl gets closer to me, looks down at me. The other girls are sort of closing in. It was like a movie scene. I remember that because I thought maybe I should have, maybe that wasn't the best thing to do. And she looked at me and she said, leave this one alone. I like her. She's brave.
And they walked away. And I've been that way my whole life. I don't let anybody stand by and get hurt in my presence. So I'm just asking you all to do the same. There be no bullies in school systems. If you all taught your kids, you don't stand by. You don't stand by and take video.
Bullies couldn't march on if people didn't close in and say, cut that out. We're reporting you. We're sending this to the police. We're calling 911. We're telling your mother. Now, when I was a kid, that was the worst thing. I'm going to tell your mother, oh God, I'd rather die. Kill me now. Don't tell my mother. But these days, it doesn't matter who's your mother. It doesn't matter. So if you brought up all your kids to intervene, how could a bully continue bullying? Even on the net,
All the nice kids close in on that person's address or however, whatever you call it. At school, if they all circled and said, no, you can't hurt them. So they keep doing, let's do a class on how you should handle a bully. And who was the class directed at? The victims or the standby types? Raise your kids not to ever stand by. Got a call from the school. My son was in a fight. He came home and he got in trouble. Zero.
tolerance to fights. Came home and I said, who started it? And who was the problem? This boy A started it on boy B. Okay. And what did A do to B? He hit him, kicked him, pushed him. And then what happened? I hit him, A, to stop him. And I said, did you stop him? Did you kind of and get him down? He goes, oh yeah. And I said, good. Do you want pizza or Chinese food tonight?
Don't worry about getting into trouble. My husband went in to deal with the school because he knew if I went in, he'd get in the front page of every newspaper. So he goes, I'll go in and talk to the principal. Yeah. No, you raise your kids to defend other people all the time. Defend other people. No bullies would exist.
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