Some of you know my daughter Kimberly. I got on a first name basis with her principal in junior hi, as I made the trip several times to pick her up for some richly deserved two-day suspensions for fighting. But there was one time that I had to laugh.
She was very petite, and when she was a pre-teen I once told her that I didn't want her fighting, but that if it ever became absolutely necessary for her to back a bully off, to not hit overhand like a girl (my apologies to AmyO), but to throw a straight punch. I demonstrated this and had her punch my hand several times. Fast-forward to junior hi. She was already a well-developed young lady, and one day in math class the boy sitting behind her couldn't keep his hands to himself. According to the account given me by the principal, the first time he tried to grope her, she told him that he had better not do that again. The second time, she threw a punch straight to the nose, breaking and blooding it and turning his desk over as he fell in the floor to the great amusement of his classmates. Both were suspended for two days. I grinned at the principal and told him that I would take her home but I couldn't get upset over this one. He grinned and said, "me either".
