When I got remarried after losing my wife to cancer, I had a stepdaughter and a stepson the stepson was someone that people like to pick on in middle school and high school. We sent him down and told him that we would defend him if he had to defend himself against some of these bullies. He actually handled it very well. He told this crazy kid that would blow his trombone in his ear as a way to get under his skin, he told the kid that he had parents permission to sock him, if he kept on disturbing him well it worked the kid backed off just from the simple threat of getting smacked