How Are Bullying Affect Children?

Over the years bullying has been used as an attack mechanism to bring fear upon an individual. Bullying has been described in so many ways such as attacking someone mentally, physically, or emotionally (The Bullies page 17). It has been used to abuse power, psychological, behavior, or physical (The Bullies page 18). Every seven minutes a child or teen is bullied.  Bullying is like a disease it comes in many shapes and sizes, and it can spread really easy. Bullying also comes in many different ways such as physical, verbally, and socially. Bullying is the use of superior strength or influence to intimidate someone, typically to force him or she to do what one wants. Across the U.S over 3.2 million students are victims due to bullying and 4,400

Parents can prevent their children from bullying by learning about their lives and why they are bullying, educating them about bullying, and helping them feel empathy. If parents pay close attention to their child’s life and make a point to help them with any problems they have, the child may bully less because their problems are being heard. Educating them about bullying can help them understand why is wrong, and make them see the victim's point of view. If they understand how hurtful bullying is to the victim, they are more likely to stop.

Many people believe bullying is a part of growing up. Some believe every kid will experience bullying at one point or another in life. The time is not taken to think about how it might affect an individual in the future. Bullying shows to affect people’s mental and physical health overtime. When someone is bullied overtime it would have a larger impact on their later life. Bullying can deteriorate both an individual’s mental and physical health in a alarming way. The community should help to learn and provide information on identifying bullying and the affects of bullying. Bullying is extremely toxic to an individual, it may later negatively affect physical formation and function of the brain and how an individual may deal with stress. As a society this topic needs to be more discussed.

Situation such as these can leave the children mistrusting of adults, and in a state of fight or psychological flight in order for the children to maintain their survival (Perry, 2004).

The state of bullying and how it is enacted is constantly changing, adapting to social frameworks. Because bullies can adapt to social changes and regulations, research suggest that we, as a society, should be equally adaptive in how we perceive, address, prevent, and punish bullying.

Abusive behaviour. Abusive parents over and over again have gone through abuse throughout their own childhoods which can be reason of their aggressive behaviour.

An investigation reports that on short term basis, the victims feel sad, afraid, anxious, and lonely. However, a Finnish study published in the September issue of Archives of General Psychiatry (http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/content/behavior/art2733.html) investigated 5038 children born in the year 1981, aged 8-24 years and used parents, teachers and child questionnaires to determine who were frequently bullies, victims or both. They evaluated the children’s mental health at the children’s age of 8 years and referred to records of psychiatric medications and hospital treatment between ages 13-19 to determine whether their mental health had any transitions.

One of the most rising problem that revolves among tennagers is bullying. The relationship between a bully and the person that is being bullied is quite unfair. The bully has the dominant power and uses it to overpower his victim. The victim of the bullying is unable to stand up to his or her bully because of size or strength, or mental ability. Many kids feel that they are unable to stand up for themselves and may believe what the bully is saying to them. One of the most aggressive forms of bullying is by physical force. The kid being bullied by may get hit, tripped, been shown mean hand gestures, and have their personal things destroyed or taken from them. Another type of bullying that should be recognized is known as social bullying. Leaving someone out or spreading rumors all fall

Bullying is defined as the prolonged malicious act of harming peers by abusing their own--or an existing imbalance of--power, and has become one of the most common sources of trauma among adolescents. One report shows that one of three children were victims of bullying during some point in their life, and that 10-14% of all adolescents were victims of chronic bullying for at least six months prior to participating in the survey. Children who were victims of bullying are also found to be at a higher risk of diagnoses for anxiety disorders and depression during young and middle adulthood. These victims are reported to be more likely to have lower levels of general/physical health, and lower educational acquirements than young and middle-aged adults who were not bullied (Wolke & Lereya, 2015). Because bullying is such a prominent problem, citizens, policymakers, and social scientists alike, should feel or have some social and moral obligation to address, and hopefully avert bullying. The state of bullying, and how it is enacted, is constantly changing and adapting to social frameworks. Because bullies can adapt to social changes and regulations, we, as a society, should be equally adaptive in how we perceive, address, prevent, and punish bullying.

Bullying is a very serious and present issue in today’s society. Those who are “bullied can experience negative physical, school, and mental health issues” (“Effects of”). These children are also “more likely to miss, skip, or drop out of school” (“Effects of”). Annually, there are about “5.4 million students skip school” due to being bullied (“The Effects”). Victims

The long-lasting psychological impacts stem directly from the short-term impacts that children experience as the result of being constantly bullied. Depression and anxiety tend to characterize their emotional outlook well beyond the bullying years, extending into their adult lives where they become chronic, sometimes lifelong, problems. These issues make eating, sleeping, working, exercising and engaging in interesting hobbies – all the hallmarks of a full, balanced life – more difficult. They also make it more difficult to make and keep relationships, whether with friends or romantic partners.

The best way to do something about bullying is to stop it before it starts. In order for bullying to be prevented, educators and parents should understand the depth of the bullying in the schools around the country. Educators and parents need to be aware of the common appearances of bullies and victims, they also need to be familiar with the most active bully-prevention methods now in use. Bullying can threaten students emotional and physical safety at school and can influence their ability to learn. There are a number of things not only school staff can do but also other students and to make schools safer and prevent bullying. Assess school prevention and intervention efforts around student behavior, including substance use and violence.

May lose interest in school work and experience a decline in academic performance. It is important to note there are often severe affects of bullying. In Why Kids Kill: Exploring the Causes and Possible Solutions, Sylvia Rimm, a clinical professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, identifies a common trait among the violent children she's worked with: "There was always a history of problems in peer relationships," Rimm said. "All of them [children who expressed anger violently] had been teased by others more than what is typical."

Kowalski, R. M., Giumetti, G. W., Schroeder, A. N., & Lattanner, M. R. (2014). Bullying in

To begin with, parents of the kids that are bullying can teach them how they should be acting. One could show them how to treat others with respect, and how to sort out their differences with that particular person. A parent should also get to the bottom line, find out why the child is trying to hurt others. Sometimes the one who is bullying has been bullied in the past, and tries to take it out on other people. A possible way to make it so that the person doesn’t want to bully anymore, is to make them be responsible for their actions. Also, one could have the bullies apologize for any wrongdoing they have caused to other