Often when somebody hurts our child, our protecting mama bear instincts come out. However when Coco Austin and Ice-T’s daughter Chanel, 8, encountered a bully, the mannequin had a distinct strategy to coping with it — and everybody ought to take notes.

“We had one bully dialog and it was truly in kindergarten,” Austin mentioned in a brand new interview with E! Information. “This little lady was bullying [Chanel], and she or he used to come back house and say, ‘Mommy, I don’t like this lady. She’s imply to me.’”

That breaks my coronary heart! However as an alternative of marching as much as the college and sharing phrases with that little lady who damage her daughter, Austin took a extra light strategy. At first, she determined to let issues play out and see if this was simply typical 5-year-old drama. However when she attended a college perform, she seen the lady and her mother performing humorous after they noticed her and Chanel.

“Once I noticed this dad or mum, I killed her with kindness,” Austin defined. “And her entire opinion modified of me, and she or he most likely had a dialog together with her daughter [because] Chanel didn’t have an issue the remainder of the yr.”

She continued, “As a matter of truth, she was asking Chanel, ‘Can I come to your events? Can I come to your own home?’ And that’s all it takes: You simply must kill them with kindness.”