right? i mean....i'm thinking of the kid i went to school with who was violent to anyone around him when he thought he could get away with it.

so one day i followed him partway home from the bus, grabbed him from behind, spun him around, kneed him in the balls so hard he fell over and rolled around pathetically, and told him he'd better not touch anyone where i could see him ever again.

we were both 9 years old at the time. as far as i know, he never told anyone about it. he also never touched anyone on our bus, in our class, or in our lunch period ever again. if he ever started nonsense, i would cross my arms and twitch my knee, and he'd back down.

was i wrong to do what i did? i mean, maybe. it certainly wasn't a mature way to solve the problem. but by that point he'd been being violent to other children for years and the adults sure weren't stopping him. so while it might not have been a GOOD solution or a morally correct solution, i don't feel like i am a bad person for coming up with it and then implementing it, even though it was violent.

sometimes children solve their own problems and I feel like Todd decided to solve this one.