1 in 7 Students in Grades K-12 is either a bully or a victim of bullying. Some parents are worried about changes, needs, and risk factors for their kids ages ten to fourteen. Kids are going to go through emotional and physical changes, like puberty. Some young teens are even at risk for depression and behavioral issues, including breaking the law. Other young teens may have certain needs. Well, all young teens have needs that need to be met!
Young teens are going through such dramatic changes; it’s normal for them to swing from being happy to being sad or from feeling smart to feeling dumb. They may worry about personal traits that are vital to them, but hardly noticeable to others. With a growing ability to see the consequences of different actions, tweens and young teens are increasingly considering who they are and who they may become. They are more able to think like adults, but they don’t have the experience and judgment needed to act like adults. It’s important to help them recognize that. Your reassurance and acceptance are especially important at this time, as is your tween or teen’s growth in school and community activities. Strong support will help them develop the confidence they need to make healthy choices.
These may be some physical and emotional changes you should look out for. This is the age when kids need to start using deodorant and learning more personal hygiene. Some go overboard and spend hours in the bathroom. Others resist, refusing to bathe. Puberty
Bullying is a wide spread epidemic in our country. Almost everyone will be bullied at some point in their life. Bullying happens for many reasons and can have fatal consequences if it is not handled.
Bullying is a growing epidemic in today’s society and has become a pressing social and educational concern. It is often dismissed as typical adolescent behavior but ignoring the problem could be detrimental to the bully, the person being bullied, and even those who stand by witnessing the unkind acts but do nothing about it. Bullying can hinder academic, social, and emotional development and because it manifests in different forms, it is important to recognize the signs and address it with all parities immediately.
Bullying has been a problem for schools for a long time and has continued to be so. It has increased dramatically, taking everything that happens at school and moving it to the Internet. Pre-teens and teens are the most likely victims because they do not fit in a certain group or the bully just wants to show them that they are better than anyone else. While, the school focuses on only the academic part of the students and not the social, they cause students to build barriers between everyone in order to keep their problems to themselves. Bullying can range anywhere from verbal insults to physical abuse which can include pushing, shoving or even hitting. The verbal insults include name-calling, teasing or using derogatory words. Bullying can also be emotional which may include ignoring the friend or leaving and not including in group activities. It also exists over the social media, face-book, and even at the mobile texts. There might be people who believe bullies are not dangerous because they see it as a game that kids play in order to get attention, with no intention of harming anyone. They might as well believe that every children passes through the stage of “bullying” in order to become what one day they will be. But what happens to those students who are physically abuse at school and that give the report to the school but instead of helping, they ignore the situation and move on from them? Those students are the ones we must consider helping because they are pleading
Teasing and playing around are all part of growing up; however, what happens when it happens over and over. The Hernando County Code of Conduct defines bullying as:
The patient is a 15 year old female who presented to the ED with an overdose on an unknown amount of Paxil, Melatoin and some other unknown pills. Per documentation the patient reports seeing a counselor and has experienced bullying for the past couple of days.
An average bullying session lasts about 37 seconds; an adult intervenes in the problem about one in twenty-five times (Bullying Facts). Bullying is seen as aggressive and unwanted behavior between two or more people (Aspa). Most people who are not involved in the actions going on do not really know it’s happening. Most parents do not even know when their child, or children, are being bullied (Bullying Facts). Bullying can be prevented if the right consequences take place. Parents and schools have the rules about bullying prevention, but these do not prevent the bullying from continuing their ways. People who bully often should receive bigger consequences because eventually the problem could escalate and the bully will continue their
If you are a bully or have been bullied then you should know how bullying feels like.Bullying is very negative and creates major problems in our society, such as causing people to commit suicide, switch up their personality, or don’t go to school.Physical bullying happens when the bully uses physical power or violence to intimidate the person.Bullying has been treated as a part of growing up, or something that will toughen up young people as they grow up throughout life.Research has shown that students in America who are bullied can develop many emotional issues.Recently there have been a lot of suicides blamed on bullying and caused peoples lives over it.These must be stopped and the only way to do so is by installing preventing bullying programs
Children who are bullying may have concerns, fears, feeling lonely and make them unhappy. Because threatened in bad things or negative. Make kids have caused confusion and the lonely, embarrassed friends in school and sometime they may skip school. Study in school psychology found when it come bullying girls were more likely to be victim of verbal or relational assaults while boys were more likely to be physically bullied and as kids age the physical bullying. It may affect development of children. Furthermore,
Although not a new phenomenon, bullying has become an increasingly alarming problem facing young children all across the country. The American Justice Department bullying statistics show that one out of every four kids will be bullied sometime throughout their adolescence. While most of us agree that something needs to be done about the bullying problem in America, a solution has not been found to eliminate this problem. The problem is, school districts source their anti-bullying programs on a trial on error basis. While many may argue that these programs do work, this literature looks into the alternative way to promote anti-bullying which is through positive reinforcement by implementing a kindness program. This paper reviews one approach
Bullying. This word has meaning for so many people. Some have been bullied. Some have witnessed it. Some tried to stop it. Some are parents of children who are bullied. Some even contemplate suicide because of it. Bullying is something that occurs almost on a daily basis in many schools in the United States as well as around the nation. While the principles of many schools claim to help the situation, they allow it to continue or say “kids will be kids”. Since when was it ok to be pushed around or beaten down physically, emotionally, and mentally in one of the few places that a student should feel as if they are safe?
It is important to encourage the child to talk about any bullying that they may have
The definition of bullying victimization is most often attributed to Daniel Olweus; who defined bullying victimization as an act in which a person is exposed to negative actions that are intended to inflict physical, mental or emotional distress (Olweus, 1994). One of the most significant consequences of bullying victimization is the observation that it occurs most often in repeated cycles that can affect the long-term emotional stability of the victim (Nansel, Overpeck, Haynie, Ruan, & Scheidt, 2003 ). Studies indicate that bullying victimization experiences often leave victims prone to defiant or delinquent behaviors, poor school performance, and anger or aggression problems (Nadel, Spellman., Alvarez-Canino, Lausell-Bryant, & Landsberg;
At the health fair, we had a few pre-adolescent children that were 10-11 years of age. This age group focuses on fact rather than fantasy however, they beginning to increase their self-esteem. This age group is advancing toward maturity and abstract thinking they are accordingly “developing secondary sex characteristics and accepting responsibility.” (pg.131, Growth and development) By age 12 the head is adult size. The adolescent will hit a growth spurt just before puberty consequently, the average weight gain is 5.5 to 7 lbs., per year, height increases about 2inchs a year. (Leifer, Fleck, 2013) By age 11 the fine motor skills have developed more since preschool and kindergarten. The calorie intake will increase, as the child begins a growth spurt. Similarly, Ages 14-16 will experiment with different looks and images. ‘This age group is more impulsive, impatient, and has identity confusion.” (pg. 153 growth and development) Middle adolescents begin dating, feels they need to please their friends. The adolescent will rebel and demand privacy, also “struggle for autonomy.” (Leifer, Fleck) This age group might experiment with drugs and sex. In addition Ages 17-2 growth slows and they become comfortable with their body. This group is thinking independently now. They begin to have caring relationships, identify their career goals. The late adolescent will start considering what college he or she would like to attend.
Adolescence changes in a child in various ways, physiological, culturally, cognitively. The adolescence years are a period of rapid growth unlike middle childhood. This is the stage where puberty and hormones hit a growing child. Pubic hair and budding of breast is seen in girls while in boys the growth of pubic hair and the penis growing
The definition of bullying victimization is most often attributed to Daniel Olweus; who defined bullying victimization as an act in which a person is exposed to negative actions that are intended to inflict physical, mental or emotional distress (Olweus, 1994). One of the most significant consequences of bullying victimization is the observation that it occurs most often in repeated cycles that can affect the long-term emotional stability of the victim (Nansel, Overpeck, Haynie, Ruan, & Scheidt, 2003 ). Studies indicate that bullying victimization experiences often leave victims prone to defiant or delinquent behaviors, poor school performance, and anger or aggression problems (Nadel, Spellman., Alvarez-Canino, Lausell-Bryant,