Bully for Stopping Bullies

Another good parenting article co-authored by Alan E. Kazin in Slate, this time regarding what to do when your kid is being bullied. Like most modern parenting advice, his suggestions go against traditional thinking. In other words, the options that you would most likely try — "telling your child to stand up to the bully, telling your child to try to ignore and avoid the bully, taking matters into your own hands by calling the bully's parents or confronting the bully yourself, or asking your child's teacher to put a stop to it" &mdash won't work.

No mention of the effectiveness of one additional option: beating up the bully's parents.