Recently, a video called “The most fiercely children fighting” spread crazily online, what surprise Chinese netizens is that the photographer is actually the girl’s father and the boy’s uncle. After the video was uploaded to network, it immediately caused hot debates among netizens. Some web users find through human search that the parent is a restaurant owner in Renqiu, Hebei province. Lan Jianguo, the parent of the girl, said: “I want kids to understand that facing the bullying one should have the courage to fight back.”

According to Lan, the two children grew up together, her daughter is three months older than his nephew, her daughter is sturdy while nephew with weak character, in order to let the boy know how to defend his dignity, he never discourage them when they fight. Mr. Lan said he had his own set of theories, he believes in “natural selection, survival of the fittest”, to let kids to dare to fight back when face bullying.

By encouraging children to fight can really cultivate children’s self-esteem and self-reliance?

Should children be taught to defend themselves against bullies like what this Chinese father does?