Cyber Bullying

            With technology comes easier ways to bully without even being near to your victim. Cyber Bullying is what it’s known as and is just as bad if not worse than your normal bullying. The definition of Cyber Bullying is “an individual or a group will fully using information and communication involving electronic technologies to facilitate deliberate and repeated harassment or threat to another individual or group by sending or posting cruel text and/or graphics using technological means.” ( Dilmaç, B., & Aydoğan, D., 2010)

 Computers were not a big thing when I was coming through schools, but they are a big part of everyone’s daily life now. Home was the escape I had to get away from the bullying, but now a child isn’t even safe at home from it. Because of this new form of bulling, children that are being affected become depressed, nervous, and upset; in which affects their relationships with family and friends. ( Dilmaç, B., & Aydoğan, D., 2010)

            Teaching children about being aware of cyber bulling and that they do not have to put up with it. It’s very important to let a child know it’s not their fault for being bullied. Being told just “don’t pay attention to the bully” isn’t enough. The child should be taught how to deal with the bullying and about cyber safety. Schools need to make time to educate children more on bullying, cyber bullying, and what they should do if they are a victim of it.

Dilmaç, B., & Aydoğan, D. (2010). Values as a Predictor of Cyber-bullying Among Secondary School Students. International Journal of Social Sciences, 5(3), 185-188. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.

Factors of Bullying

When I was coming through school bullying was a usual thing in my life and a very unpleasant experience. I was picked on throughout my elementary years to my first year in High school. It seemed like they would start picking on me for no reason, maybe out of bored who knows. No matter how nice I was to them they would always have something mean to say to me or start picking apart how I looked and dressed. Sometimes they would push me around or slap me in the back of the head. Nothing was ever really done about it. I would say something to the teacher and the group of kids that picked on me would lie. It was my word against theirs. It was an experience that no child should have to go through.

It is interesting to note that bullies can be created by having bad role models in their lives that give them an unhealthy example of interacting with others. Children pay close attention to how adults around them act, especially if the adult is very close to them. With this said lack of knowledge and bad environment, which are your bad role models, help make bullies (Healy, 2010). So maybe the schools are not the only factors in the bullying problem. But if that’s the case the school system needs to step it up a notch to help promote a healthy environment and role models.  

Bullying is becoming a serious and common problem in schools with the growing suicides in younger children. In Psychology Today states that “Bullying is a “warning sign” that a school system is sick” (Healy, 2010). I have to say I’ve never thought about the school being the problem, but the more I think about it, that could possibly be a factor in the issue. But the school system is not the only factors. The way the child is being raised and the environment they are in are other contributors to the problem. 

Healy M., (2010, October 19) School bullying. Psychologytoday.com. Retrieved February 13, 2011, from the World Wide Web: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creative-development/201010/school-bullying

Bullying in School

When I was going through school I had problems with being picked on. I was picked on until I started High school. Now days the bullying in schools is getting worse each year and the methods of the bullying are changing. Now they have cyber bullying, which makes it easier for bullies to pick on other children. I believe when you get picked on it affects you all throughout your life. I feel like I have a self-esteem problem from all the bullying that happened to me. Bullying is a problem in the school system and it's a problem that needs to be address.  Some people don’t think it’s a problem and that it’ll make kids tough, but that’s wrong. I was verbally and physically picked on. Other kids use to tease me because I was tall and skinny. I was quiet and shy so that also made me a prime target for being bullied. It made school not fun for me and gave me unnecessary stress.