The Melbourne-based media personality took to Twitter to express her dismay over her eight-year-old son Louie’s experience:
MESHEL LAURIE has written an angry post about her son being bullied over a single choc chip cookie in his school lunch box.
MESHEL LAURIE has written about her son being bullied over a single choc chip cookie in his school lunch box.
“I wish that “bully” could go back in time to my primary school in Toowoomba in the early ’80s for just one little lunch,” she continued on Twitter.“Cookies were biscuits, shoes were optional, and bullies were not known for their health food programs.”
The issue obviously deeply angered Laurie, 42.
“I really, really want to advise my son to tell that kid to f**k off. Just nice and simple. Right in his smug little face. Old school” she continues.
“Ugh. I know I can’t though. That kid is hiding behind the niceness of the school. It’s hard being a bogan parent sometimes.”
A number of Twitter users sympathised with Laurie.
“Oh, [school has definitely changed],” wrote Twitter user @tracywodonga.
“My children think cigarettes are akin to heroin. I used to use cigarettes to barter for Mars Bars in year 8!”
It’s not the first time the author and ex-radio host has spoken out about bullying.
Two years ago Laurie was gobsmacked by the blatant sexist attitude of two online trolls.
Speaking to her then co-host Matt Tilley on her KISS FM show, Laurie said:
“I don’t want you to feel sorry for me, for a lot of reasons, but specifically because … this doesn’t happen to me a lot and also genuinely it did not hurt my feelings, I just thought it was a fascinating thing that happened.
“The first one said, ‘you just told us on The Project to fatten up for winter, look in the mirror and maybe hibernate fatso’.
“And then I swore back at him, I’m just in the mood where I just went, I said ‘Hi Daryle, that was actually the point of the joke you stupid, joyless, creep,’ I put another word in there.”
To Laurie’s amazement, this particular troll wrote back and apologised.
“Personally, I find this even weirder, but the dude has apologised. People be cray!” she wrote in a follow-up post on Facebook.
“Thanks so much for the support, but let’s leave good old Daryle to get on with his life in peace. Hopefully now he’ll think twice before casually contacting a woman with the sole purpose of trying to make her feel bad about herself.
“I won’t be shamed into silent self-hatred by a rando on my socials. Soz.”