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likes. So Mom took it off the tree and handed it to Manny to hang up himself. But Manny wanted his ornament to be the FIRST one on the tree, so that meant we had to take all the decorations down, just so he could get his way. And that's just the kind of thing that happens in my house every single day. Mom hasn't started to use the threat of Santa as a way of getting Manny to behave, but I'm sure she will soon. I don't think it's such a good strategy for

喜欢。所以妈妈把它从树上取下来递给曼尼，让他自己挂起来。 但曼尼希望他的装饰品是第一个挂在树上的，所以这意味着我们必须把所有的装饰品都取下来，这样他就可以为所欲为了。 这就是我家里每天都会发生的事情。 妈妈还没有开始用圣诞老人的威胁来让曼尼听话，但我相信她很快就会的。 我不认为这是个好策略

keeping us in line, though. Because the second Christmas is over, Mom doesn't have any real leverage. WELL! THE EASTER BUNNY IS GOING TO BE VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU BOYS! Monday Right before Thanksgiving break, there was a contest at school to see who could come up with the best anti-bullying slogan, and the grand prize was a pizza party for the winning team.

让我们保持一致。 因为第二个圣诞节结束了，妈妈没有任何真正的筹码。 好!复活节兔子会对你们非常失望的！星期一就在感恩节假期之前，学校里举行了一场比赛，看谁能想出最好的反欺凌口号，大奖是为获胜团队举办的披萨派对。

Only YOU can STOP BULLYING! Form a team of up to five people and come up with the best anti-bullying slogan. The winning team will get a PIZZA PARTY in the cafeteria! Let's make bullying extinct! Everyone wanted that pizza party, and people didn't care WHAT they had to do to win it. Two groups of girls in my grade came up with slogans that were really similar, and each group accused the other one of stealing their idea. The whole situation spun out of control, and eventually the vice principal had to step in to stop it from turning into a full-scale riot.

只有你能停止霸凌！组成一个最多五人的小组，想出最好的反欺凌口号。 获胜的队伍将在自助餐厅举行披萨派对！让我们消灭欺凌！每个人都想要那个披萨派对，而人们并不关心他们需要做些什么才能赢得这场派对。 我们年级的两组女生想出了非常相似的口号，每一组都指责对方剽窃了自己的创意。 整个局面失去了控制，最终副校长不得不介入，以阻止事态演变成一场全面的骚乱。

Our school only has one legitimate bully this year anyway, and his name is Dennis Root. And with all the signs and posters everywhere, BULLDOZE BULLYING NO BULLY ZONE STOP BULLYING NOW I'm pretty sure the message is getting through to him. The day before Thanksgiving there was a big anti- bullying assembly, and everyone in the auditorium was looking at Dennis the whole time. I kind of felt sorry for him, so I tried to make him feel better.

我们学校今年只有一个合法的恶霸，他叫丹尼斯·鲁特。 到处都是标语和海报，上面写着“推土机欺凌”，“禁止欺凌区”，“停止欺凌”。现在我很确定他已经明白了这个信息。 感恩节的前一天，有一个反欺凌大会，礼堂里的每个人都一直看着丹尼斯。 我有点同情他，所以我试着让他感觉好点。

Even though Dennis is the only real bully in our school this year, we had a BUNCH of them LAST year. People were constantly getting picked on at recess, so the teachers set up a station on the playground where kids could press a button if they needed to get a grown-up's attention. TELL -A- TEACHER STATION Well, the Tell-a-Teacher station just ended up being a convenient place for the bullies to hang out and find their next victims.

虽然丹尼斯是我们学校今年唯一一个真正的恶霸，但去年我们学校有一群恶霸。 课间休息时经常有人被欺负，所以老师们在操场上设立了一个小站，如果孩子们需要引起大人的注意，他们可以按下按钮。 好吧，“告诉老师站”最终成为了恶霸们闲逛和寻找下一个受害者的方便场所。

The teachers say TEASING counts as bullying, too, but I don't think there's any way they're gonna put a stop to THAT. Kids are always calling each other names and that kind of thing at my school. In fact, one of the reasons I try to stay under the radar is because I don't want to end up getting stuck with a nickname like Cody Johnson did. In kindergarten Cody stepped in some dog poop at recess, and ever since then people have called him "Dookie."

老师们说戏弄也算欺凌，但我认为他们没有办法制止这种行为。 在我的学校里，孩子们总是互相辱骂之类的事情。 事实上，我尽量不被人注意的原因之一是我不想像科迪·约翰逊那样被一个绰号缠住。 在幼儿园，科迪在课间休息时踩到了狗屎，从那以后，人们就叫他“杜奇”。