Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Bullying exists in many different forms, some may be very severe some slightly lesser. However, whether it’s small or big case, it is still a form of bully. Here are some forms of bully. Firstly, name calling, which is giving people a name which he or she dislike. This is a small case of bully; however it must not be overlook, as over the years the impact will get bigger and bigger. Example, everyday we save $1 , a year it will be $365 , after 10 years it would be $3650. Comparing $1 and $3650 , we have seen that the amount of money grow, the same goes with name calling, the effect will build-up over the years and leave an impact on the victim.
Following up, hurting a person physically is also a form of bullying which is far more serious then name calling. Example, Student A may beat up Student B because A dislike B. After the beating, B suffered from serious injuries and need to be hospitalize for days.
Well, this may not be the worse impact on B , as physical wounds can be healed, the superior impact on B is emotionally. B will not be able to forget that he is being beaten up badly and he will be traumatize forever.
Thirdly, verbal abuse and threatening is also a form of bully. Verbal abuse include scolding of vulgarities and threatening can be “ You better watch out ! “ this kind of comments. Verbal abuse and threatening is serious as it can cast fear to the victim so if u think that scolding vulgarities is to vent off your anger, I persuade you to think twice or even thrice .
Alright, now let’s go into the reasons why bullying exists among students.
First reason, I personally feel that it could be the parents influence, for name calling, the parents may call their child some nickname too, this culture is being brought into school.
Physical punishment to their child also let the child have a chance to bring this culture to school and inflicting it to fellow schoolmates. Some parents scold vulgarities infront of their child, the child not knowing the meaning will try to mimic and scold in school. This will let the culture of scolding vulgarities continue.
Second reason, television influence. Children watch television shows which may illustrate some scenes of violence. Children without parental guidance watching this may be led astray.
After looking into some kinds of bullying and reasons for bullying, let’s look into the solution. First and foremost, parental care and love. Children need lots of care and concerns, no matter what happens I never agree into using violence against a child as the child is innocent and I strongly believe by telling the child nicely, the child will learn. Therefore I persuade all parents before hitting your child, think carefully, does your child really deserve this kind of treatment? Have you ever tried to sit down and have a heart to heart talk with your child? Do you understand why your child did that action? If you never think carefully and hit your child, I dare to assure you that you will regret it. So please stop hitting your children and give more attention to your child.
Second solution, to have longer character development programme in school teaching students to differentiate between right and wrong. Also to let student know all the effects of bullying, forms of bullying and consequences for bullying, so that the student will have a clear picture of what is bullying and will try to avoid doing certain actions.
Now after explaining, I hope that parents would shower more love towards their child and students to slowly change the habit of bullying.
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