What is bulling?

Bullying is an intentional behavior that hurts, harms, or humiliates a student, either physically or emotionally, and can happen while at school, in the community, or online. Those bullying often have more social or physical “power,” while those targeted have difficulty stopping the behavior. The behavior is typically repeated, though it can be a one-time incident.

Why do people bully ?

There are different reasons why people bully

-wanting to dominate others and improve their social status

-Having low self-esteem.

-Having a lack of remorse or failing to recognise their behaviour as a problem.

-Feeling angry or frustrated.

-Struggling socially.

-Being the victim of bullying themselves.

Types of bullying:

There are many different types of bullying :

Physical bullying:

Physical bullying includes hitting, kicking, tripping, pinching and pushing or damaging property. Physical bullying causes both short term and long term damage.

Verbal bullying:

Verbal bullying includes name calling, insults, teasing, intimidation, homophobic or racist remarks, or verbal abuse. While verbal bullying can start off harmless, it can escalate to levels which start affecting the individual target. Keep reading in this section for techniques to deal with verbal bullying.

Social bullying:

Social bullying, sometimes referred to as covert bullying, is often harder to recognise and can be carried out behind the bullied person's back.

• lying and spreading rumours
• mimicking unkindly
• damaging someone's social reputation or social acceptance.

Cyber bullying

Cyber bullying can be overt or covert bullying behaviour using digital technologies, including hardware such as computers and smartphones, and software such as social media, instant messaging, texts, websites:

• Abusive or hurtful texts emails or posts, images or videos
• Deliberately excluding others online
• Nasty gossip or rumours
• Imitating others online or using their log-in

• Feel your inner strength

. Everyone has an inner strength to draw on; the problem with bullying is that many bullies try to make you feel that you lack this strength and that you're less of a person because of this. It's not true; beware the deliberate attempt to belittle you and cause you to feel weak.Sometimes we think they can take everything we have as a person away from us. Believe that you are stronger than they are because deep down you are stronger than they are and stronger than they ever will be.