It\'s human instinct to self protect and fight back. If your son or daughter doesn\'t fight back and only cry, you will feel sorry because they are too weak. I don\'t want to promote fighting. But what your 62 taught your kid wasn\'t totally wrong.
As that\'s instinct, you don\'t need to teach. U can teach him/her to hide or to avoid but not fight. Imagine, if teaching them to fight is the correct way, shall we teach them to fight back until they have built the impulsive fight back reaction and then we tell them fighting is wrong. You have got a point on self-protection but we cannot confuse them on what\'s right.