Kids recognize bullies

[progressiveforever]

While talking to a group of nine and ten year olds today about bullying using what follows below, one young man asked if it that was what that one woman (Palin, I'm sure) kept doing to Barack Obama? (Barack is his hero). I asked him what parts of what she did seemed like bullying to him--he replied that she kept saying bad things about him to make Obama look bad. I had to remain neutral, but I told him that putting people down for good things was certainly bullying.

Read it for yourself: it does sound like Palin.

What is bullying?
Bullying is when someone keeps doing or saying things to have power over another person.
Some of the ways they bully other people are by: calling them names, saying or writing nasty things about them, leaving them out of activities, not talking to them, threatening them, making them feel uncomfortable or scared, taking or damaging their things, hitting or kicking them, or making them do things they don't want to do.

Have any of these things happened to you? Have you done any of these things to someone else? Really, bullying is wrong behaviour which makes the person being bullied feel afraid or uncomfortable.


Why do some people bully?
There are a lot of reasons why some people bully.

They may see it as a way of being popular, or making themselves look tough and in charge.
Some bullies do it to get attention or things, or to make other people afraid of them. Others might be jealous of the person they are bullying. They may be being bullied themselves.

Some bullies may not even understand how wrong their behaviour is and how it makes the person being bullied feel.

[ruggerson]

1. great post

k/r

[progressiveforever]

2. Kids get it

We sometimes don't