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What is bullying?


Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.


 There are 3 types of bullying:
  • Verbal bullying is saying or writing mean things. Verbal bullying includes:
    • Teasing
    • Name-calling
    • Inappropriate sexual comments
    • Taunting
    • Threatening to cause harm
  • Social bullying sometimes referred to as relational bullying, involves hurting someone’s reputation or relationships. Social bullying includes:
    • Leaving someone out on purpose
    • Telling other children not to be friends with someone
    • Spreading rumors about someone
    • Embarrassing someone in public
  • Physical bullying involves hurting a person’s body or possessions. Physical bullying includes:
    • Hitting/kicking/pinching
    • Spitting
    • Tripping/pushing
    • Taking or breaking someone’s things
    • Making mean or rude hand gestures

 Online socializing has good and bad sides to it. While it has opened a whole new dimension of ways to communicate and has added convenience to our lifestyles, it unfortunately has some unpleasant effects, too.
Cyberbullying is one example that has had devastating outcomes on our youth. It uses online communication to abuse or degrade someone. It’s a crime that doesn’t restrict itself to the playground. With advancements in technology, cyberbullying has gained notoriety over the years.

Types of Cyberbullying

1. Outing
act to embarrass or publicly humiliate an individual by posting their private, sensitive or embarrassing information online. 
2. Fraping
Fraping is serious offense where a person accesses the victim's social media account and impersonates them in an attempt to be funny or to ruin their reputation. 
3. Dissing
Dissing is when people share or post personal photos, videos and screenshots or cruel information about your child online to ruin their reputation or friendships with others. 
4. Trolling
Trolling is a form of cyberbullying done by insulting an individual online to provoke them enough to get a response. 

5. Trickery
Trickery is the person pretends to be a close friend, sin order to reveal their secrets or embarrassing information, which the cyberbully posts on the Internet for everyone to see. 

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