When my son was in elementary school, he endured ongoing verbal bullying. While it wasn’t physical, the impact was profound. Words have a way of settling quietly into a child’s identity, and over time, I could see how those daily comments were shaping his confidence and sense of self. Because he was a bigger kid, the situation was not always taken as seriously as it should have been, yet emotionally, the effects were very real. During that season, I introduced him to daily af