According to UNICEF, slightly more than 1 in 3 students aged 13-15 around the world experience bullying. While girls and boys are equally at risk of being bullied, girls are more likely to become victims of psychological forms of bullying and boys are more at risk of physical violence and threats.
Every child got bullied at least once in a lifetime, either from a brother or a friend, it’s not categorized as bullying as long as it’s confined in jokes and friendly between them.
however, It’s considered as bullying when speech is hurtful, intentional and repetitive. It crosses the line between joking and simple harassment and bullying children use their strengths (whether physical or knowing sensitive or embarrassing information about someone) to control or harm others.
Accordingly, there are three criteria that make bullying different from other negative behaviors and practices: Deliberately, repetition and power imbalance. These behaviors lead to many types of bullying.
This is any bullying that hurts someone’s body or damages their possessions.
Stealing, shoving, hitting, fighting, and destroying property all types of physical bullying. Physical bullying is rarely the first form of bullying that a target will experience. Often bullying will began in a different form and later progress to physical violence. In physical bullying the main weapon the bully uses their body when attacking their target. Sometimes group of young adults will target and isolate a peer because of some adolescent prejudice. This can quickly lead to a situation where they are being taunted, tortured, and beaten-up by their classmates.
Physical bullying will often escalate over time, and can lead to a detrimental ending, and therefore many try to stop it quickly to prevent any further escalation.
This is any bullying that is conducted by speaking. Calling names, spread rumors, threatening somebody, and making fun of others are all forms of verbal bullying. Verbal bullying is one of the most common types of bullying. In verbal bullying the main weapon the bully uses are their voice. In many cases, verbal bullying is very common in both genders, though girls are more likely to perform it. Girls, in general, are cleverer with insults than boys. Girls use verbal bullying, as well as social exclusion techniques, to dominate and control other individuals and show their superiority and power. However, there are also many boys with ingenuity enough to use verbal techniques for domination, and who are practiced in using words when they want to avoid the trouble that can come with physically bullying someone else.
This is any bullying that is done with the intent to hurt somebody reputation or social standing which can also link in with the techniques included in physical and verbal bullying. Relational bullying is a form of bullying common amongst youth, but particularly upon girls. Relational bullying can be used as a tool by bullies toboth improve their social standing and control others. Unlike physical bullying which is obvious, relational bullying is not obvious and can continue for a long time without being noticed.
Cyber bullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person. When an adult is involved, it may meet the definition of cyber harassment or cyberstalking, a crime that can have legal consequences and involved jail time. This includes email, instant messaging, social networking sites, text messages and cell phones.
Collective bullying tactics are employed by more than one individual against a target or targets. Trolling behavior on social media, although generally assumed to be individual in nature by the casual reader, is sometime organized efforts by sponsored astroturfers.
Mobbing refer to the bullying of an individual by a group, in any context, such as family, peer group, school, workplace, neighborhood, community or online. When it occurs an emotional abuse in workplace, such as “ganging up” by co-workers, juniors or seniors, to force someone out of the workplace through rumor, hint, threat, humiliation, dishonor, and isolation, it is also referred to as malicious, nonsexual, nonracial/racial, general harassment.
As a result of these incidents, everybody wondering who is at fault, the child or the parents.
Therefore, should parents be held responsible for the outcome of their children’s bullying? Parents should be held responsible if their child is a bully. When an adult decides to be a parent, they become responsible for whatever mistakes their child may do, until the child becomes an adult. Therefore, it is up to the parent to know what their child is doing at all times. The parent should show their child right from wrong, and as parents, he or she must remember, children repeat what one may say and do. A parent’s responsibility is to know what their child is doing, regardless of the situation. Parents should ask their child daily about one’s social activities. Parents need to be mindful of their child’s daily activities. As parents, he or she is responsible and accountable for the actions of one’s minor children.
Preventing and stopping bullying involves a commitment to creating a safe environment where children can thrive, socially and academically, without being afraid. For the parents of kids being bullied, they must observe their children for signs they might be being bullied. Children may not always be vocal about being bullied. Signs include: ripped clothing, hesitation about going to school, decreased appetite, nightmares, crying, or general depression and anxiety. When you find out, don’t tell them to “let it go” or “suck it up”.
Instead, have open-ended conversations where you can learn what is really going on at school so that you can take the appropriate steps to correct the situation. Most importantly, let your child know you will help him/her and that they should try not to fight back. Teach yourchild how to handle being bullied, work with your child to handle bullying without being crushed or defeated. Practice scenarios at home where your child learns how to ignore a bully. Therefore, parents of kids engaged in bullying must teach children to Stop bullying before it starts, educate your children about bullying. It is possible that your child does not know what they are doing is hurtful. Remind your child that bullying others can have legal consequences.
Don’t bully anyone in front of your child, children learn behavior through their parents. Being exposed to aggressive behavior or an overly strict environment at home makes kids more prone to bully at school. Parents should model positive examples for your child in your relationships with other people and with them.
Research shows that children or adolescents who repeatedly bullying other children make them suffer from failure to continue jobs or establish healthy relationships on their future. Personal differences and the severity and duration of the abusive action with parent’s treatment affect the strength of the effects it has on the child. Common effects include: Loss of self-confidence, loss of concentration and decline in academic performance, social shame and fear of facing new communities and possible mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, and suicides