Contributed by: Laura Briel

Excerpt below from: Eagle Newspapers

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“They are everywhere. Bullies, that is.
Whether on the playground or in the workplace, people are confronted each day with what Skaneateles school counselors Ro Brennan and Kelly Bonner call “difficult personalities.”
Brennan and Bonner talked to about 15 parents who braved the negative temperatures on Jan. 15 at Waterman Elementary School about bullies, what makes them tick and how each parent can teach their children to be assertive.
“They tend to be personalities that need to be in control,” Brennan said, adding that bullies are very demanding and while personality may often be genetic, cruelty and unkindness is garnered from the environment a child grows up in.”