BULLYING

INTRODUCTION
Bullying is the use of force, coercion, hurtful teasing or
threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate. The
behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential
prerequisite is the perception of an imbalance of physical or
social power. This imbalance distinguishes bullying from
conflict. Bullying is a subcategory of aggressive behavior
characterized by the following three criteria: hostile intent,
imbalance of power, and repetition over a period of time.
Bullying is the activity of repeated, aggressive behavior
intended to hurt another individual, physically, mentally, or
emotionally.
An Imbalance of Power: Kids who bully use their
power—such as physical strength, access to embarrassing
information, or popularity—to control or harm others. Power
imbalances can change over time and in different situations,
even if they involve the same people.
Repetition: Bullying behaviors happen more than once
or have the potential to happen more than once.
Bullying includes actions such as making threats,
spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally,
and excluding someone from a group on purpose.
 TYPES OF BULLYING
There are three types of bullying:

1. Verbal bullying is saying or writing mean things. Verbal

bullying includes:
-Teasing
-Name-calling
-Inappropriate sexual comments
-Taunting
-Threatening to cause harm
2. Cyberbullying is bullying perpetrated through electronics
devices or online platforms. Cyberbullying includes:
-Sending mean text or IMs to someone
-Spreading rumors about someone through social
media
-Action to manipulate, harass and deframe any person
3. Physical bullying involves hurting a person’s body or
possessions. Physical bullying includes:
-Hitting/kicking/pinching
-Spitting
-Tripping/pushing
-Taking or breaking someone’s things
-Making mean or rude hand gestures
Bullying is something that people should not have to go
through, yet something that is often difficult to stop.
Hopefully, these pieces of advice will help you if you are
feeling upset about bullying you may have experienced.

What have you learned about bullying?

6 things I learned about bullying:

1. The bullies will only keep bullying unless action is taken

-As long as you do not do anything to defend
yourself by telling parents, teachers or administrators,
the bullies will keep bullying you. If they do not feel
threatened, they will only get worse and you will have
no choice but to be the victim of their bullying. Bullies
are only bullies if you let them.
2. You have to stand up for yourself
-In the real world, you have to be able to take care of
and defend yourself. You can defend yourself verbally, for
example, by saying “stop” or asking what you did to make the
bully hurt you. No one is really going to be there to stand up
for you, so you have to be able to do that.
3. You should not care what other people think or say
-If you let a bully’s words get to you, you may become
upset but you should not. Yes, I cared about what people
thought and sometimes I still do, but bullying taught me that
it does not matter what anyone but yourself thinks about you.
4. You are not alone
- are many people who have also been bullied, probably
a lot that have been bullied the same way as you. Trust me, if
you feel as if you are alone, you are not. You have people like
parents, therapists, family members that you can count on.
5. If you see bullying going on, do something about it
-If and when you witness someone being bullied, do not
just stand there and watch. Become involved – tell a nearby
teacher or administrator, try to stop the bullying in a careful
manner. Be careful not to get too involved, or you might get
in trouble by having an experience that the bully can use to
haunt you.
6. Bullying should not change you, but should be a part of you
-You should use your experiences to make better, wiser
decisions and you can even help someone from being
affected by bullying.
CONCLUSION
Bullying means harassment or
harassing other people. Bullying is you do
everyday or everytime. Some people bully
because they are jealous at someone,
some people bully because they are having
hard time, some people bully because they
have no food or money, and some people
bully because they hate each other. Most of
the time kids bully from other kids and see
how bullying affects the life of child.