Self Esteem and Bullying

At last, after thirty years of nonsense from children's charities, therapists and politically-correct educationalists, the notion that low self-esteem is the main cause of aggression, bullying and violence is finally being challenged.

It has been driving me potty for most of my life to see the usual phony experts claiming that, for example, bullies in the school playground mostly have problems arising from low self-esteem when it has to be so clear to anyone who knows anything about children that it is, if anything, high self-esteem that is the real culprit.

No, not in every case; for there are certainly some children who react impulsively and anti-socially as a result of low self-esteem. But, in the main, if there are any effects of self-esteem with regard to those whose behaviours often include aggression, bullying and violence, it is that they have too much of it!

They have too much esteem for themselves, and far too little for others.

I can barely express my delight at seeing this particular politically-correct balloon being burst.

Strange that, Angry Harry. Why is this particular area so important to you?

Two reasons.

Firstly, I am an experimental psychologist by training, and it has been absolutely unbearable to watch - for so long - so many of those purporting to have psychological 'insights' into human functioning and behaviour managing to gain so much credence with other allied professionals and the public on the basis of phony, invalid, worthless 'research'.

Secondly, the current self-esteem findings rank well among those others (to be found all over this website) that are helping to expose the fact that it has been the SAME politically-correct, supposedly child-centred, largely unqualified groups of people found working for many children's charities, in the teacher-training centres, or as therapists, that are the VERY CAUSES of the negative consequences for society (e.g. teenage delinquency, violence, criminality) that they CLAIM to be so expert upon.

In the case of self-esteem, these 'professionals' have been pumping it up in those very people who, if anything, need to have it deflated.

I sleep better at night, by knowing that the utter incompetence of so many of these so-called 'experts' is gradually being highlighted

And I am made happier, and I sleep better at night, by knowing that the utter incompetence of so many of these so-called 'experts' is gradually being highlighted, as is the destructiveness and the worthlessness of their ridiculous ideology which seems to demand nothing except blind subservience to a vapid creed of political correctness and the intimidation of those who disagree with it.

the power that these groups once held is finally being drained,

However, as with Enron, and now Anderson, and largely through the same facilitating mechanisms (from the new information technology) the power that these groups once held is finally being drained, and the days of having to pander to the phonies who lead them are coming to an end.

And I am delighted!

14/01/02

Self-Love, A Modern Social Disease

Self-love, a modern social disease Polly Toynbee - concerning the role of self-esteem - worth reading, because for the past 20 years the idiots promoting the politically-correct child-centred approach to child-rearing have been arguing that violence in children - such as bullying other children - is likely to be the result of low self-esteem, when, in fact, anyone with the slightest understanding of child behaviour could SEE that the very opposite was the case in most instances.

So, what has been going on?

they could climb up career ladders and make themselves sought after by the media by continually mouthing 'politically-correct' sentiments.

Well, the truth of the matter is simple. Somewhere in time, about three decades ago, it came to pass that academics in the educational and social work field realised, consciously or not, that they could climb up career ladders and make themselves sought after by the media by continually mouthing 'politically-correct' sentiments.

(And it still goes on today, where, for example, UK teachers seeking job promotion have to learn the politically-correct mantras in order to pass their interviews.)

They didn't have to base any of their understanding - nor their comments - on science, objective evidence or close scrutiny of the realities to do with the situations upon which they pontificated. They simply had to toe a given line.

they managed to get much of society to reject the accumulated wisdom of the generations that went before

The consequences have been disastrous not only as a direct result of the undue and unwarranted influence that these people have had, and continue to have, on the educational and social policies fashioned by government, but also because of the manner in which they managed to get much of society to reject the accumulated wisdom of the generations that went before - mostly on the basis of little more than fanciful, fine-sounding nonsense, which sounded plausible only because it was grammatically-correct and appeared to be delivered in a caring tone.

Further, many of those now at the summit of their careers (and who are, therefore, highly influential) reached these positions by a process which tested the strength of their adherence to the religion of Political Correctness rather than their brains.

Indeed, if I had to pick the group which contained the most incompetent, the most intellectually-deficient, the least insightful, the least perceptive, and the most empty-headed of all individuals, it would have to be the 'politically correct'.

I would rather listen to the man-hating rhetoric of misandric feminists

I would rather listen to the man-hating rhetoric of misandric feminists all day than be subjected to the excruciatingly inane gobbledygook propounded by the politically correct.

And here's Tana Dineen ... Repeated research findings have indicated that those who are aggressive—the premeditated murderers, genocidal maniacs, gang leaders and violent kids—do not suffer low self-esteem.

Before the national self-esteem movement began, kids earned self-esteem or absorbed it naturally from their parents. Diane Alden

Also see, ...

Smack Those Bottoms - bogus research on smacking children

Shameful Therapists

and ...

The Curse of the NSPCC

... to get some idea of just how unacceptable and damaging to the well-being of all of us are the self-serving, self-promoting antics of the child-abuse industry.