# Respect the Mind Space

By [Ram](https://paragraph.com/@ram008) · 2024-02-25

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How do kids start showing off? Is this something parents inculcate via their implicit or explicit actions? Too much encouragement, pepping up at home? Too spoiled or just raised confident? I do not have enough sampling points to know how these kids progress as get into the real world. As parents of kids facing such bombastic kids, I find it fairly annoying as it impacts kids like mine, who are far more circumspect, negatively.

Isn’t this just like passive smoking where the impact of someone smoking hurts those inhaling the fumes even more? The impact of kids who taunt, tease, bully other kids is often very understated. The impact such kids have on the lives of their targets is not a joke that such kids think they are playing. It leaves scars, sometimes for life.

We should catch kids doing the right things and encourage them. But as parents and educators, we need to be even more aware of such disruptive behaviors and nip them on the bud. Confidence is good for kids and elders, but overconfidence and transgression into mental boundaries is not. Geography is not just for physical artifacts, there should be such a thing called mental space.

Say NO to bullying.

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*Originally published on [Ram](https://paragraph.com/@ram008/respect-the-mind-space)*