I guess its up to you, but as a bullied kid I was always told by my mother to just be nice and the bullys would find it hard to be mean. If they got physical to just move away YEAH RIGHT you have a pack of females and they act like a pack of wolves hunting.

I plan on enrolled DD into some form of martial arts as soon as she is old enough.

I think it gives kids confidence as well as the ability to defend themselves IF the need arises. When I did Judo (shame I didn't continue it) I was taught discipline and self control and to use my "weapon" only as a last resort and then and only then you had to warn (not tell) the other person that you knew marital arts.

I think things would have been different for me in High School had I still had training of some kind!

BOL hun x x x