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then her friend shared it "and it just kind of went crazy from there." The blog had been clicked on 885,000 times as of Wednesday and received countless other clicks on online sites that have posted it, she said.
• She accepts the criticism and acknowledges her sons are still young -- ages 4 and 2.
• Metz said she doesn't condone violence but also doesn't think parents should let their kids shut down when someone's mean to them. It's a philosophy she said she and her husband, Matt Metz, learned from their parents and are using on their own boys.
• "I feel like we're creating a generation of victims," she said.
• Bullying expert Paul Coughlin said there's some merit to that because some parents are too quick to solve their children's problems. He's president and founder of The Protectors, a Medford, Ore.-based organization that works with public and private schools to reduce bullying.
• "I've coached those kids who are over-parented and you kind of want to give them a T-shirt that says 'does not play well with others,'" said Coughlin, who's also a soccer coach. "It does make for some fragile children when we over-parent."
• Coughlin said everyday conflict does not constitute bullying. And studies have found that most children will experience some bullying growing up, but it doesn't do serious harm, he said. But by trying to protect their children, some parents increase their children's chances of repeatedly being bullied.
• "This over-parenting also is almost a perfect storm for creating serial targets," he said. "Over-parented children are more likely to be serial targets than non-over-parented children."
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