Bullying: Verbal, Relational, Or Cyberbullying?

What Bullying Can Lead To Imagine one of your best friends getting bullied. What would you do about it? Would you stand up for your friend or would you just stand there and not do anything about it? Bullying can lead to a whole bunch of things. If your best friend was getting bullied, there would be so many things that could go down in just 48 hours. There could be bullying at school and online. Bullying is being mean to another kid over and over again and making them feel like less of the person they actually are. There are four different common kinds of bullying: Verbal, Physical, Relational, and Cyberbullying. Verbal bullying is bullying with cruel spoken words, involves ongoing name-calling, threatening, and making disrespectful

Kids who are bullied can feel like they are, different, powerless, unpopular, and alone. While some bullying is physical and easy to recognize, bullying can also occur quietly and covertly, through gossip, smart phones, the internet, and so much more and they all cause emotional damage. The behavior can hurt, humiliate, and harm another person physically or emotionally. Students often describe bullying as when “someone makes you feel less about who you are as a person.” The U.K. has no legal definition of bullying while some U.S. states have laws against bullying. Bullying typically involves subtle methods of coercion, such as

Bullying often includes, teasing, talking about hurting someone, spreading rumors, leaving kids out on purpose, attacking someone by hitting or yelling at them. “Bullying includes actions such as, making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.” Bullying can lead to physical and mental health problems including, headaches and stomach aches, sleeping problems, low self-esteem, increased fear or anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress. Those targeted by the behavior have difficulty stopping the action and struggle to defend themselves. Bullying can occur in a single incident if it was either very severe or arise from a pattern of behavior. Bullying can be defined in many many, many ways. Research shows that half of all children are bullied at some time during their school years. More than 10% are bullied regularly. More parents are allowing their young children to undergo plastic surgery to combat bullying. The word “bully” was first used in 1530 and originally applied to both genders and meant “sweetheart.” Around the seventeenth century, the term began to mean “fine fellow,” “blusterer,” and then “harasser of the weak.” Kids who have food allergies almost always get bullied. Food allergies affect an estimated three million