This is a powerful story and completely correct about confronting bullying in the early stages. Few realise that adult bullying is often rooted in childhood. How many adult bullies were bullies and did things like that as children! It was a deeply distressing frightening experience of aggression, that could've got worse. Thankfully you confronted this early on. I see sometimes such unbelievable outrageous bullying between school kids on streets, physical attacks, even beating on the ground. Where the hell are their parents! It's parents that nerd to nip these aggressive behaviour in the bud and reprimand any signs of bullying and aggression in their kids. Unfortunately many don't. Your mum acted very correctly, like any good caring parent, by confronting the bullies family, whether they were cousins or not. Thanks for sharing this story. It's where it all starts.