Bullying
1.
Bullying Definition
An unhappy teen boy walks
away from bullying girls. Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among
school aged children that involves a real perceived power imbalance. The
behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids
who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problem. In
order to be concidered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include:
An Imbalance of Power: Kids
who bully use their power such as physical strenght, access to embarrassing
information, or popularity to control or hsrm others. Power imbalance can
change over time and in different situations, even if they involves the same
people.
Repetition : Bullying
behavior 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.
2. Types of Bullying
There are three types of bullying:
a. Verbal bullying is
saying or writing means thing. Verbal bullying includes:
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Teasing
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Name-calling
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Inappropriate sexual comments
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Taunting
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Threatening to cause harm
b. Social bullying,
sometimes referred to as relational bullying, involves hurting someone’s
reputations or relationships. Social bullying includes:
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Leaving someone out on purpose
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Telling other children not to be friends with someone
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Spreadimg rumors about someone
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Embarrassing someone in public
c. Physical bulllying
involves hurting a person’s body or possessions. Physical bullying includes:
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Hitting/kicking/pinching
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Spitting
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Tripping/pushing
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Taking or breaking someone’s thing
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Making mean or rude hand gestures
3. Where and When
Bullying Happen
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