Bullying Hasn’t Being Stopped

Bullying hasn’t being stopped

Bullying is a form of aggressive behavior manifested by the use of force or coercion to affect others, particularly when the behavior is habitual and involves an imbalance of power. The imbalance of power may be social power and/or physical power (Lara, Marcelo, Arenas & Estrada, 2012). In order to be coinsidered bullying it has to be agressive and it must be caused by the imbalance of power and has to have repetition. There are three types of bullying which are verbal bullying that might include teasing, name calling, inappropiate sexual comments among others; social bullying that involves leaving someone out on propouse, spreading rumors, embarrassement in public among others; and physical bullying  that could be physical abuse (hitting, kicking, pinching), pushing, taking or breaking things of the victim, hand geastures, etc. Bullying can occur in any context in where human interaction is involved like at school, workplace, home, neighborhoods, church parks, including others. Bullying is a major problem within our society, which mainly occurs in children of all ages, but it particularly happens in infants between the ages of 11 and 13 years old due to the physical and psychological changes that they have to go through. Even though there are several movements that make an effort to end bullying once and for all, bullying is not desappearing anytime soon due to the contemporary technology and the lack of education.

According to Hess (2012) we now live in the 21st century and with our advancements in technology we have created new means of staying in contact with people (p. 2) but just as this technology is a double-edged sword as it enables us to highlighting the issues of concern. The amount of social media we have in the present has enabled new ways to harass others; this is known as cyberbullying. Some of the most common examples of cyberbullying are excluding someone from an instant messenger buddy list or blocking their email for no reason, tricking someone into revealing personal or embarrassing information and sending it to others, breaking into someone's email or instant message account to send cruel or untrue messages while posing as that person, creating websites to make fun of another person such as a classmate or teacher, using websites to rate peers as prettiest, ugliest, etc. (Hess, 2012). The best way to prevent cyberbullying is to be aware of what websites your kid is visiting and try to be there when using them, try to have your computers in a common area of the house like a studio or a living room; another method that schools are using is blocking certain web pages so students wont be able to access them while they are in the institution.

Bullying is becoming more and more frequent among today's youth. Unfortunately, recent bullying statistics show that bullying is on the rise among young adults, teens and children. The origin of this problem is related to the way that is lived at home. Should be recalled that "children are a reflection of the parents", we know that the family is the first moralizing institution where a child develops and shape their character by mimicing their parental behaviors. Something serious is the large number of families with harmony problems can be caused by one or more most common like economic problems, addiction problems, family violence, little quality time cohabitation, the irresponsibility of the parents due to their age, among others (Mooij, 2011) . This means that parents must put an end to any situation that arises when being the parents of the aggressor or the parents of the victim. As mentioned before, as mentioned earlier, the people who participate in this situation are children between ages 11 and 13 years old and according to the Australian Institute of family Studies these are children who spend less time with their parents (6 hours daily) and more time with other people and alone (8 hours daily); that's why the kids are not having a parental figure in their life. Parents should pay close attention to emotional changes your child may have, because commonly these are indicators of bullying situations.

Life skills are the skills that a person aquires in order to manage and live a better quality life, they enable you to develop into healthy, responsible, and productive (Kijtorntham, 2013). The main problem that our society faces to completely eradicate bullying is due to lack of education with life skills. This education with life skills must be provided to the bullies and the victim primarily, but this education must be accessible to the general public. The reason that bullies must be educated is that many of them are not aware of exactly how much they are hurting their victim (Glenn & Castle, 2013) both physically and psychologically. According to the stop a bully web page over 14% of high school student have coinsidered suicide and 7% have attempted it; around 4,400 commited suidide last year due to bullying. When we talk about educational life skills for victims is not to say that we should teach them to defend themselves and that many people misinterpret and end up attending boxing classes; what institutions want to do is educate them about the situation and learn to handle such harassment; around 34% of people who suffer from bullying remain silent and not externalize this situation with anyone and thus can not give the victim the necessary attention; institutions need to let the victim know that is a valuable person and help restore their self-esteem gradually. Similarly, parents should be educated to any situation, whether your child is the victim or is the bully, and know how to handle this situation and with whom they can turn for help. As educate society is concerned, we must denounce any agressions of bullying and let the authorities take care of the situation.