I'm going to cheat by using what I used on my community's userinfo (and there were five different definitions): "1. Bully (v): to abuse, to affect by means of force or coercion
2. Bullying is generally defined as repeated physical, verbal, sexual, or psychological attacks or intimidation by one individual who is perceived as being physically or psychologically stronger than another. In a general sense, a student is being bullied or victimized when he or she is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other students.
3. Bullying is a form of abuse. It comprises repeated acts over time that involves a real or perceived imbalance of power with the more powerful individual or group abusing those who are less powerful.
4. Bullying is acting in ways that scare or harm another person. Kids who bully usually pick on someone who is weaker or more alone, and they repeat the actions over and over.
5. Bullying is a form of overt and aggressive behavior that is intentional, hurtful, and persistent (repeated). Some of the key words in our definition of bullying are intentional, hurtful, persistent, and imbalance of strength. Thus behavior such as teasing that is not intended to hurt and is not persistent is not considered bullying. However, even playful teasing can easily escalate into a bullying situation. Those who have power over the child may repeatedly use the teasing comments to hurt them." With that said...
I think one of the ways to deal with bullying is: A)Teach kids that differences are okay because that's one major reason why people bully is that they are wary of how different others are compared to them and B)Teach kids on how to deal with negativity in their life. We're never really taught how to deal with our emotions when something bad happens like if a love one dies or if our parents divorce. Since kids don't know, they tend to take their feelings out on other people.
I do know that you will always have kids that will bully for reasons other than because they're going through a difficult time or have an issue with differences. However, I think doing the two above will dramatically decrease bullying a lot imo.
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Date: 2013-11-16 09:10 pm (UTC)"1. Bully (v): to abuse, to affect by means of force or coercion
2. Bullying is generally defined as repeated physical, verbal, sexual, or psychological attacks or intimidation by one individual who is perceived as being physically or psychologically stronger than another. In a general sense, a student is being bullied or victimized when he or she is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other students.
3. Bullying is a form of abuse. It comprises repeated acts over time that involves a real or perceived imbalance of power with the more powerful individual or group abusing those who are less powerful.
4. Bullying is acting in ways that scare or harm another person. Kids who bully usually pick on someone who is weaker or more alone, and they repeat the actions over and over.
5. Bullying is a form of overt and aggressive behavior that is intentional, hurtful, and persistent (repeated). Some of the key words in our definition of bullying are intentional, hurtful, persistent, and imbalance of strength. Thus behavior such as teasing that is not intended to hurt and is not persistent is not considered bullying. However, even playful teasing can easily escalate into a bullying situation. Those who have power over the child may repeatedly use the teasing comments to hurt them." With that said...
I think one of the ways to deal with bullying is:
A)Teach kids that differences are okay because that's one major reason why people bully is that they are wary of how different others are compared to them and
B)Teach kids on how to deal with negativity in their life. We're never really taught how to deal with our emotions when something bad happens like if a love one dies or if our parents divorce. Since kids don't know, they tend to take their feelings out on other people.
I do know that you will always have kids that will bully for reasons other than because they're going through a difficult time or have an issue with differences. However, I think doing the two above will dramatically decrease bullying a lot imo.