Bullying And Its Effects On Children - 1476 Words

For several decades, bullying has spread significantly. It has been present all over the world for as long as people can remember. And when technology was released, it created new ways for people to communicate, which made bullying become even worse than before. Adults, teenagers, and children that are all the same are being bullied. Bullying can take form in many different ways, as well as it can affect the victim, and people are also able to stop the behavior. THE TYPES OF BULLYING A bullying victim can be bullied physically by being pushed around on a playground or in the hallways of a school. Spitting, kicking, pinching, and hitting are also forms of physical bullying that may occur during or after school as well (Bullying†¦show more content†¦Every one in four students during the school year, that’s twenty-two percent, report being bullied (Bullying Statistics). Cyberbullying is much different, sometimes the victim doesn’t know who the online bully is, because the bully may have an account that doesn’t show a face, or have any personal information on it. Cyberbullying is where the bully sends mean threats or messages through text, spread things online that aren’t true, posts hurtful things on social media, and much more. Cyberbullying happens more during the last three years of high school than middle school grades, till the first year of high school (Cyberbullying Statistics). Michele Hamm, from the University of Alberta, is a researcher in pediatrics (Pappas). She explains, â€Å"Kids really are hesitant to tell anyone when cyberbullying occurs. There seems to be a common fear that if they tell their parents, for example, they’ll lose their internet access.† There’s more than one in three children , or young people, that have received online threats from cyber bullies. One fourth of young adults a nd teens have been continuously bullied on the internet or through messages sent to the victim. And young people that are cyber bullied, well over half of them do not tell their parents when they are bullied online (Cyberbullying Statistics). Michele made a good point, children don’t want internet privileges taken away, and don’t want to be grounded or not be able to hang out with friends because of the bullying