Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : There's a 12 year old boy who lives across the street from me. His sister and my daughter, both 8, are best friends. We've lived here for nearly 4 years now, and this kid has been nothing but a bully to my daughter. Mostly just teasing and name calling, but there has been the occasional violent threat. I've spoken with the parents several times and each time he seems to get worse. We've gone as far as talking with authorities about getting a no contact order against him.

Yesterday I had enough. My wife text me at work basically saying he's at it again. She's a teacher, so she's at home with my daughter for spring break. When I got home from work, he was outside. I walked across the street and yelled something along the lines of "hey you, come here." For the next minute I yelled at the top of my lungs at him. I didn't touch him, I didn't threaten him with violence. I basically told him that he is not to speak, look at, or even think about talking to my daughter again or I will get the police involved. 

By the end of my rant, he had tears and his eyes and was shaking.  I turned to walk away and found that I had gotten the attention of a neighbor.  He yelled and said "he's just a kid, you cant talk to him like that." I told him to mind his own business because he doesn't know the whole story. I then went inside my home.

What I didn't realize was that the kids parents were not home at the time and after I went inside the neighbor called the father. My wife then informed me that the parents were not home. So I decided that I would wait and talk to them as soon as they got home to tell them what I did.

About 30 minutes later the dad pulled in the driveway and went inside. I walked over, knocked on the door and the daughter answered.  The dad was sitting at the table with the boy talking to him. After seeing me, and already knowing I yelled at his kid, he stepped outside and shut the door behind him. He was heated, he got in my face and began to yell, threatening violence against me if I do it again. I would take a few steps back and he would continue to step towards me. At one point I slapped his finger out of my face.

After a minute things cooled down and we talked civilly. I explained the events of that day and he agreed that they were not appropriate.  I apologize to him for yelling at his son, though I honestly don't feel all that bad about it. He claimed that his son would be punished, but I feel as though he doesn't think that what his son been doing is all that bad, which is why the bullying continues. At the very least, I think I scared the kid enough to back off. 