What Is Bullying

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What Is Bullying?

• Teasing
• Ignoring
• Humiliating
• Excluding
• Gossiping
• Assaulting
• Relationship Abuse
• Spreading rumors
• Stealing
• Cyber harassment
• threats verbal abuse
• Cell phone / texting bullying
• Abuse of authority
• (teachers, family, group or church
  leader etc.)

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Signs of a Bullied child or teen

• Coming home with cuts and bruises
• Torn clothes
• Asking for stolen possessions to be replaced
• Losing dinner money
• Falling out with previously good friends
• Being moody and bad tempered
• Being quiet and withdrawn
• Wanting to avoid leaving the house
• Aggression with brothers and sisters
• Doing less well at schoolwork
• Insomnia
• Anxiety

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Who Are The Bullies?

• Bullies are both male and female.
• Bullies are all different ages.
• Even adults can be bullies.
• Many times kids who are bullies
• turn into adults who are bullies.
• Bullies may have been victims of bullying.
• Bullies do what they do because
• they want control and power and
• dont know any other way to get it.
  
• Bullies typically suffer from low self-esteem.
• Bullies want people to look up to
  them, so they try to act tough.
• Bullying is often a cry for help.

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What makes a Bully?

• You demean your victims using name calling
• You spread rumors
• You make up stories to get your victims into
  trouble
• You take your victims friends away leaving them
  without friends
• You tell other people not to be friends with your
  victim
• You hit, kick, trip up or push your victim around
  
• You make remarks about their culture, religion or
  color
• You make remarks about their looks or weight
• You make remarks about their disability or
  medical condition
• You dont choose them to be your partner in class
  
• You leave them out when youre choosing a games
  team
• You tell them youre busy and then go off to
  enjoy yourself with other people
• You take away their possessions or demand money
  from them
• You hide their books or bag
• You make jokes about them when you can see
  theyre upset
• You send them nasty text messages or make silent
  calls on their phone
• You indulge in horseplay when you know they are
  not enjoying it
• You make threats about nasty things that will
  happen to them
• Youre going along with the crowd who are doing
  any of these things

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• An educational non-profit dedicated helping
  children, teens and families learn how to avoid
  or get away from Sexual Abuse,
  Abduction
  Exploitation.
• through education.

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