Kids November 12, 2018 Issue

Prayer stopped the bullying

Timmy

I’ve played ice hockey for the last seven years. Last fall, I joined a new team. We were really good and won most of our games, and at first, all of the players seemed really nice.

But then, about halfway through the season, one kid began bullying me. I’m the goalie, and he’d say that I was afraid of the puck, that I was small and a bad player, and that he didn’t like my leg pads. He said those things very loudly so everybody else could hear. During games, this boy and some other players would say mean things about me when I made a mistake or let in a goal.

Hearing that stuff made me think that I might be a bad player like they said. Sometimes, I’d look down at my leg pads and think, “Are these really bad pads? Maybe I should ask my dad to get new ones.” When I was in bed at night, I thought about the mean things my teammates were saying about me.

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