{"id":38501,"date":"2022-10-24T09:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=38501"},"modified":"2022-10-24T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:42:14","slug":"bullying-can-have-lasting-consequences-on-all-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/bullying-can-have-lasting-consequences-on-all-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullying can have lasting consequences on all involved"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There was a time when bullying may have been thought to be part of growing up or kids just being kids.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But thankfully we now know better.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bullying can be harmful and have lasting consequences on both sides \u2013 the kid being bullied and the perpetrator. It\u2019s defined as aggressive behavior that repeatedly happens over time and within the context of a power imbalance.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

October is National Bullying Prevention Month and Teachers of Tomorrow is bringing awareness to these attacks that can have dire consequences for those at the receiving end.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some facts about bullying for us all to keep in mind.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bullying can occur during and after school hours. While most of these acts take place inside the school building, a significant amount of bullying happens on the playground or the school bus, usually out of sight of a teacher or authority figure, according to <\/span>Stopbullying.gov<\/span><\/a>. In today\u2019s world, however, bullying online or cyberbullying where kids are teased and talked about through various social media platforms has added yet another wrinkle to an already complex problem.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bullying takes on many forms. The most common is verbal, which occurs when one or more students direct mean things to another student. \u202fBut bullying can also be physical, social, and emotional, which all can have grave repercussions for the targets of bullying.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the short term a kid who is being bullied\u202fis going to look something like depression so they might lose interest in school,\u201d said Judy French, who is a coordinator for California-based <\/span>Pacer\u2019s National Bullying Prevention Center<\/span><\/a>. \u201cIf they were once a student who really liked school, they might not want to go or activities that they formerly enjoyed like soccer or something they may not want to do those things because that might be where the bullying is happening. There can be eating disturbances, and sleep disturbances. And if things go on without support, you can have suicidal thinking or self-harm.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut unfortunately for some kids, the effects of bullying can last a lifetime.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

French says bullying is often a learned behavior, observed either at home or amongst peers. That makes it incumbent upon adults of influence to make certain that they are exhibiting the behavior which they want their children to display when they aren\u2019t around.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just the world that we live in at large,\u201d French said. \u201cAdults are responsible by not just promoting what they want to see but showing kids what it looks like to accept people who are different than you. What does it look like marching through the world being kind and intentional? What does it look like? That\u2019s how kids know how to do it.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s important for adults, especially in schools, to be in tune with bullying behavior and to create a safe environment where vulnerable children feel comfortable letting you know they feel they are being bullied.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cResearch has shown a connection between caring adults and kids that has some structure changes a child\u2019s life,\u201d French said. \u201cIt\u2019s rather startling to me that it comes down to that connection between an adult human being and a child.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

French says it\u2019s important to stress three characteristics to kids that may prevent bullying from occurring. Those are to promote being intentional, kind, and inclusive and accepting others who may be different than you.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen those are actively modeled by adults and kids see that that is just the culture that they are in, they know what to do with their peers,\u201d French said. \u201cIt\u2019s not perfect, it\u2019s a very long-term thing but those three social behaviors have a long-term effect on communities.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a time when bullying may have been thought to be part of growing up or kids just being kids.\u00a0 But thankfully we now know better.\u00a0\u00a0 Bullying can be …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":38503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/media\/Blue-Green-Hands-Unite-Anti-Bullying-Poster-Instagram-Post-Square.png","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-08 19:23:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38504,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38501\/revisions\/38504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}