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Informative Essay On Bullying: The Epidemic

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Bullying: The Epidemic In the past, most American parents have looked at bullying as, “hey, they were only joking, toughen up a little”. Today it has turned into an epidemic. Most parents think that these type of things will just pass and go away as kids get older, not knowing the pain their child is feeling and that they are only masking that pain as they get older. America needs to recognize bullying as a true epidemic, these things will impact our kids lives forever. These days bullying isn’t just taking place at school on the playground, or in the hallways, it is taking place online. Today, and in recent years kids and young teens will only face more and more bullying as things evolve with social media, things like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are only going to become increasingly popular and new platforms will be made as well. Bullying affects people so much that it can …show more content…

One of the Koyczan wrote was “When a kid who could still go home to mom and dad had the audacity to tell him “get over it,” which is very relevant in American culture about how us as parents treat the matter of bullying when it comes to our kids. American dads simply just shrug off the idea that their kid got bullied and tell the kid to just shrug it off, most kids affected by bullying do not shrug it off and go back to school scared of who will judge them and feel unsafe. As parents we need to teach our kids how to react to bullying. Teaching our kids how to react to bullying is one of the main ways we can put a stop to it, by teaching our kids how to stick up for themselves they will start to fight back against bullying and we would see a lot less of it. But no, most American Dads will simply tell their child to forget that it happened and to just ignore it even when they drop their scared child back off to school

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