Before you all go, I don't mean sex education in the way you're probably thinking; I'm talking about teaching our children from an early age how to express their feelings effectively and appropriately in a healthy way. I'm talking about teaching children how to treat each other with respect and kindness. We often talk about how bad habits are learned, but this statement is equally true when applied to the antithesis that good behavior must also be taught. Just as a person can more easily fall into a pattern of drug abuse if they are not informed about the problems of drugs and their side effects, so too can people fall into abusive relationships with others and themselves without adequate awareness . When you normalize the idea in children that people, regardless of how they differ from you, should be treated with the same level of dignity, then when they hear adults outside of school shaming someone's body or objectifying someone, they won't think it's that's simply how adults act. That child will see the injustice in those words and actions; seeing the extraordinarily perverse for what it is. Bullying will not occur as often, and children who are being bullied will recognize the unfair treatment for what it is and will be more likely to speak up about it: either to the bully or to tell an adult. In any case, this will effectively put an end to the oppressive treatment by the harassing peer