Anti Bullying
Anti Bullying
Anti Bullying
BULLYING
Physical bullying is the most obvious form of bullying. It occurs when kids use
physical actions to gain power and control over their targets. Physical bullies
tend to be bigger, stronger, and more aggressive than their peers. Examples
of physical bullying include kicking, hitting, punching, slapping, shoving, and
other physical attacks.
Unlike other forms of bullying, physical bullying is the easiest to identify. As a
result, it is most likely what people think of when they think of bullying.
Additionally, it has historically received more attention from schools than
other more subtle forms of bullying.
Verbal Bullying
Relational aggression is a sneaky and insidious type of bullying that often goes
unnoticed by parents and teachers. Sometimes referred to as emotional bullying,
relational aggression is a type of social manipulation where tweens and teens try to
hurt their peers or sabotage their social standing.
Relational bullies often ostracize others from a group, spread rumors, manipulate
situations, and break confidences. The goal behind a relationally aggressive bully is to
increase their own social standing by controlling or bullying another person.
Cyberbullying
Sexual bullying consists of repeated, harmful, and humiliating actions that target a
person sexually. Examples include sexual name-calling, crude comments, vulgar
gestures, uninvited touching, sexual propositioning, and pornographic materials. For
instance, a bully might make a crude comment about a girl’s appearance,
attractiveness, sexual development, or sexual activity. In extreme cases, sexual
bullying opens the door to sexual assault.
Girls are often the targets of sexual bullying both by boys and by other girls. Boys
might touch them inappropriately, make crude comments about their bodies, or
proposition them. Girls, on the other hand, might call other girls names like “slut” or
“tramp," make insulting comments about their appearance or body and engage in slut-
shaming.
Prejudicial Bullying
Prejudicial bullying is based on prejudices tweens and teens have toward people of
different races, religions, or sexual orientation. This type of bullying can encompass all
the other types of bullying including cyberbullying, verbal bullying, relational bullying,
physical bullying, and sometimes even sexual bullying.
When prejudicial bullying occurs, kids are targeting others who are different from them
and singling them out.