Mom Whose Bullied 12-Year-Old Died by Suicide Makes Emotional Plea to Parents

My name is Dianne Grossman…
My daughter is Mallory Grossman, after months of bullying at school she ended her life of June 14, 2017. #mallorysarmy

An article here on Scary Mom[sic], was recently written, where a mom pleas to ask parents to teach their children to just stop..
Their child lay in a hospital bed….

My daughter made it to the morgue. Only.

I cannot imagine this mom’s pain as she typed those words. She continues,

I need your help, we must manage, oversee, and parent our children’s social media use. Yes, you all suffer from “not my child syndrome” …
Humiliation, Exclusion, and intimidation IS BULLYING! 
The “you can’t sit with us”‘was only funny in a movie, not in real life, and certainly not for Mallory.

I think the point Grossman makes here is VITAL: “You all suffer from ‘not my child syndrome.'” The truth is, on some level, we all do. We WANT to believe the best about our children and we fear their slip-ups reflect badly on us so we deny or make excuses for them. And as natural as it may be to us, it is VERY damaging to our kids to let them get away with terrible  behavior, and as Mallory’s case shows, very damaging to others. We can’t be like the “cool mom” in Mean Girls who just wanted to be her daughter’s friend…we have to PARENT our kids so that they won’t think the world revolves around them and wreak havoc on their own lives, other’s lives, and their relationships.


Jenny Rapson
Jenny Rapson
Jenny is a follower of Christ, a wife and mom of three from Ohio and a freelance writer and editor.

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