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Thu Jun 5, 2014, 04:35 PM Jun 2014

Seven-Year-Old Boy Launches Anti-Bully Club To Repent For His Days As A “Former Bully”

A seven-year-old boy in Beaumont, CA is employing a bit of “positive peer pressure” to help his classmates understand the damaging effects of adolescent bullying.

Cameron Thompson, a second-grader at Tournament Hills Elementary school, recently found himself in hot water after making fun of another boy for bringing a Barbie doll to school for show-and-tell. “I didn’t really mean to tease him so much that I made him cry,” Cameron told Today.

His punishment was to write an apology letter to his classmate, but according to his mother, Cameron’s guilt didn’t fade over the following weeks. “He came to me a couple of weeks later and he said, ‘I still feel really bad about what I did to him,’” Cameron’s mother Jessica Southard recalls. “He said, ‘How do I get that feeling to go away?’”

To help others learn from his mistakes, Cameron and his mother joined forces with the boy Cameron bullied to form an “anti-bully club,” which drew a whopping 76 kids in to its first meeting, far exceeding the school’s expectations. “Since I was sad, I thought I could make it up to him and he could feel better and I could feel better too,” Cameron said.

more: http://www.queerty.com/seven-year-old-boy-launches-anti-bully-club-to-repent-for-his-days-as-a-former-bully-20140605

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Seven-Year-Old Boy Launches Anti-Bully Club To Repent For His Days As A “Former Bully” (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jun 2014 OP
That's neat! shenmue Jun 2014 #1
Must be a dust up in my room...nose and eyes running angstlessk Jun 2014 #2
that's beautiful. PeaceNikki Jun 2014 #3
Great parents! BrotherIvan Jun 2014 #4
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