We hear stories every day about kids who’s parents are alerted when a teacher suspects they’ve been bullied at school. It’s not every day that you get a call from your child’s school to inform you that they are, in fact, the bully.
Kayleigh Linstrom, a self-proclaimed fashionista, was bullying a girl in her class for the clothes she wears. The 4th grader was calling the girl ugly, telling her she dresses sleezy, and made her feel like she wasn’t good enough.
In my experience of being bullied as a kid, when parents hear that their kid is saying mean things to another student, it usually ends up being a conversation where the child is half-way reprimanded in front of the kid who they’ve been bullying, and then their parents force them to apologize.
But when that’s all said and done, my clothes are still bad, my face is still ugly and that child is still a bully.
For Kayleigh, things looked much much different.
After hearing what her daughter was saying to the girl in her class, Kayleigh’s step-mom, Allie, decided this fashionista needed a little taste of her own medicine. Allie knew she was not raising a bully.
The two took a “shopping spree” at the local thrift store where Allie told Kayleigh that they were on a mission to find the ugliest clothes in the whole store.