Evidence from the California Healthy Kids Survey indicates that bullying and harassment are issues for our young people.
In order to stem these behaviors, each of us must take responsibility for a zero tolerance of unkind behavior towards others.
What Parents & Caregivers Should Know About Bullying
Four Types of Bullying
1. Physical - Using the body or object ot harm.
These include kicking, shoving, tripping, slapping, punching, hair pulling, biting, throwing objects at someone, and use of weapons.
2. Verbal - Using words to harm
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Name calling, threatening, put-downs, blackmailing, making up stories, spreading rumors, betraying a confidence either face to face or on the Internet.
3. Emotional - Using overt or covert methods to silence or exclude
Laughing, mocking, rolling eyes, negative body language, imitating, writing notes, using finger/hand signs, rejecting, excluding, ostracizing and isolating
4. Sexual - Using sexual means or nuances to intimidate or harm someone
Touching someone in an inappropriate way, making fun of someone's body, comments about sexual orientation,sexual coercion.
Statistics on Name-Calling, Bullying and School Violence
In order to stem these behaviors, each of us must take responsibility for a zero tolerance of unkind behavior towards others.
What Parents & Caregivers Should Know About Bullying
Four Types of Bullying
1. Physical - Using the body or object ot harm.
These include kicking, shoving, tripping, slapping, punching, hair pulling, biting, throwing objects at someone, and use of weapons.
2. Verbal - Using words to harm
.
Name calling, threatening, put-downs, blackmailing, making up stories, spreading rumors, betraying a confidence either face to face or on the Internet.
3. Emotional - Using overt or covert methods to silence or exclude
Laughing, mocking, rolling eyes, negative body language, imitating, writing notes, using finger/hand signs, rejecting, excluding, ostracizing and isolating
4. Sexual - Using sexual means or nuances to intimidate or harm someone
Touching someone in an inappropriate way, making fun of someone's body, comments about sexual orientation,sexual coercion.
Statistics on Name-Calling, Bullying and School Violence
- Six out of 10 American teens witness bullying at least once a day
For chldren between sixth to tenth, nearly one in six (3.2 million) - are
victims of bullying each year.
There are 3.7 million bullies accordng to this statistic.
this statistic.