Bullying is common in schools and work places, however, bullying in schools has been known to cause serious psychological problems to victims who are mostly children and teenagers.
It is important to note that not all assertive behaviour qualifies as bullying. A bully's ill-treatment of another person is always intentional, aims to intimidate and cause pain and is a repeated behaviour.
There are direct types of bullying that might be either verbal of physical. Verbal bullying involves using insulting language at the person and calling them names. Physical bullying occurs when the bully takes it past insulting the person and starts to abuse them by shoving them, slapping and hitting them, seizing their property or pinching them.
The indirect types of bullying involve saying things about a person to destroy their relationships and reputation, character assassination, humiliating a person in the presence of others and positioning oneself in a manner to intimidate the other person.
Cyber bullying is another type of bullying that is very common these days. People send e-mails, calls and texts to another saying mean things to them. Cyber bullying has caused young people in different areas of the world to take their own lives because they got depressed when the bullying would not.
Children start displaying bullying tendencies from the age of three or four and this is a good time to stop it. This is one of the reasons why parents are often advised to pay attention to their kids. Catching such symptoms early and dealing with them immediately is always better because it gets harder to re-programme children as they get older.
Quite often, bullying happens when there's no adult around to intervene. In schools, for example, the bully might be a person whom the teacher sees as a responsible child because they are proper in their presence. As a result of this, when children that are bullied turn to the teacher, most times, they are told to stop spinning tales or seeking attention. After a while, the fear of being bullied and taunted by their peers for being a tattler causes such children to stop reporting bullying incidents.
As a parent or teacher, it is important that one pays attention to such issues because they affect the lives of both the bully and the bullied child in the long run. Children that are bullied find it hard to concentrate on their school work as their mind is focused on the incidents that they have experienced and they try to figure out a way to either escape it or brace themselves for it.
Another reason why bullying should be taken seriously and checked is that in rare instances, when the bullied child has been pushed to the wall and decides to retaliate, such actions are mostly fatal. Revenge blocks out reason in such instances and the child, seeking only to scare away their harasser at first, might get carried away and cause irreparable damage to the person's body, internally and otherwise.
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