Bullying
is becoming more and more of a problem these days and we are starting to hear
about it more in the news and from our own children. Kids are being bullied to
the point they are now taking their own lives. This is a problem they have to
face day after day and no one is helping them figure out how to deal with it. My
own daughter was a victim of bullying recently in the 2nd grade, “The
2nd grade”!!! She started off telling me this little girl was
teasing her and calling her names and I would talk to my daughter and tell her “she
is just jealous of you my love don’t worry about her, go tell the teacher if
she does it again. Or tell that little girl that if she continues to tease you
I will tell the principal to call her mom”. I did not take it as serious as I
wish I would have because she was only in the 2nd grade so I thought
they were just being kids and some kids were just rude like that but I was
wrong. My daughter was getting scared to go to school and when I asked my older
daughter about this little girl she also told me how mean she really was. It
turns out this little girl was so bad that she was expelled from the 3rd
grade and had to move schools for this one specific reason. This should not be
an issue that our children should have to be experiencing at all, especially at
such a young age.
I
think if we start to education kids at an early age about why it is not right
for anyone to bully someone else or how to handle a bully if they are the victim
of getting bullied, then we can help prevent this situation from happening.
Some people may think this is just kids being kids and they are just teasing each
other. Or they may not care because they think they are just kids. Well this is
a serious problem now and someone needs to take the steps to help our kids
understand the seriousness of this problem and how to help their friends or
themselves if they find themselves in this situation.
I
want to find out if there is already something being done about bullying and
how to prevent this from happening to anyone, not just our children. Are there
counselors out there that can talk to people who already have become victims of
bullying? I plan to come up with options for these victims to help them realize
there is nothing wrong with them, they need to love themselves for who they are
and realize they are a true gift of life.
Reading your story about your daughter being bullied really made me upset. I agree that something needs to be done. Did you see in the news last week about the child who killed herself because she was being bullied? My son is in kindergarten and he told me that someone was making fun of him because a girl likes him. He did not want to go to school because he was too embarrassed. Eventually I talked with the teacher and they worked it out, but still where are our children learning to be so mean at such a young age. That is why there are twelve year olds who are killing themselves. I think more action needs to be taken place than simply saying sorry. Sorry can’t bring your son or daughter back after committing suicide. I think you should possibly add in some kind of bullying statistics about how many children drop out for being bullied. I don’t know if they have those but I feel like that is an important factor in our world today. I think you are really doing a great topic because like I said, I have a son who was bullied and he isn’t the same little boy when I send him off to school in the mornings as he once was. It is something that needs to change and fast or else we will lose a lot of children or have a lot of children drop out of school in the third grade.
ReplyDeleteI did see the recent info that is being discussed about the little girl that commited suicide and this is the main reason I choose this topic. Also because my daughter was a victim of bullying and I wish I took it more serious because he could have left a lasting depression inside of her that I was not aware of. I agree with you, where are these children learning this behavior from? TV, video games, from their parents? Thank you for your comment!
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ReplyDeleteI think you have found a great topic for your research paper, and have found several strong supporting reasons to back yourself up on the topic of bullying in schools. I too believe that if we educate our younger population about bullying, why it happens, and how to find help if you feel you are in a situation that involves bullying, then we would see a dramatic decrease in the negative consequences that have occurred in the past due to bullying. Again great topic choice and supporting reasons, can't wait to read the rest of it!
Thank you! I plan on finding a solution, hopefully, that we may be able to implement in our children so that maybe we can stop the newer generations to stop bullying.
DeleteMy children were homeschooled and therefore never experienced bullying at school. My daughter did experience it a the park. We were going through a difficult time when she was young and lived in a motel for a time. When I would take the kids to the park the neighborhood kids would prevent them from playing. They would call them names and tell them to go back to their own neighborhood. My kids would not go to that park any more.
ReplyDeleteAs to where they learn this stuff, it is my observation that they see it in the most unexpected places. Some of the children's TV shows I have seen I would not let my children watch them if they were still young. The attitudes and behavior are unacceptable. But the children on the show think that it is funny.
I am also taking Children's Literature this term. We had to make a bibliography for class. In the process of doing this I came across a book called Horrid Henry. The name is very appropriate. Henry is horrid. He yells at people, makes fun of them, destroys their property and has respect for no one. This book is touted as a laugh-out-loud book. There is nothing funny about this book. When children see this behavior on TV and in books they sometimes mistakenly think that the behavior must be okay. Put that together with them seeing it at school or experiencing it and sometimes they mimic what they see.
I agree that the books and TV that our children are learning from is having a huge impact on this situation. We as their parents need to focus on what they are watching and how they are growing up so that we can make changes if need be to insure this problem do not continue to escalate.
DeleteI think that this is a really great topic and it's something everyone needs to be aware of. When I was in middle school and high school I was bullied a lot and from my personal experiences there really isn't that much being done about the issue. I've been pushed into lockers, had my hair cut, called rude names and every weekend I had the prestigious honor of removing toilet paper from the front of my house. There was a myspace page (from way back in the day) dedicated to how much people hated me. The school did absolutely nothing. The school actually made it even worse sometimes. I grew up in California and my high school was outside and so were all of the tables and places to sit or hang out. So whenever it rained we all had to huddle in the cafeteria before school started since the hallways to the classrooms weren't opened until about 10 minutes before the bell rang. So this one day it was raining and a bunch of the kids who picked on me started throwing food at me from across the cafeteria. I started throwing a fit and hollering at them to be mature (ironic, right?) and I wound up getting banned from the cafeteria which sucked because I was a bus kid and I got to school about and hour before it started. So basically the schools brilliant fix to this was not to put a teacher in the cafeteria before school or some sort of supervisor, but rather to make me, the kid who was getting picked on, sit outside for an hour in the rain every morning. Hopefully things have changed at least a bit since I was in school, but I'll tell you this much. Bullying is awful, and until a person has experienced it, it's very hard for them to grasp exactly how horrible it can make you feel. Everything that happened still affects me to this day and hearing that it's starting now in 2nd grade is just heart breaking. I can't wait to see what kind of information you find and what your solutions are.
ReplyDeleteOh my Claire that is just absolutely horrible to hear that you had to experience this growing up. Kids are so hateful and mean now a days that honestly I do not think it is getting better it is definitely getting worse. I know it doesnt make it better but you were at least in high school and much older to be able to handle yourself but kids in the grade school levels such as elementary is just awful. Imagine if this continues at this age how bad they will be when they get to high school. I really believe this has escalated into a huge problem now and its because schools did not take the appropriate actions to handle these types of situations in a better manor. I would like to ask you a personal question of that is ok? Did you tell your parents you were getting bullied or a teacher? If so, what did they tell you or do?
DeleteI only told my parents enough to get them to drop the subject whenever the school called and I'm one of 4 so it was pretty easy to distract them since their hands were full as is. We didn't exactly have the best relationship back then but when I finally did tell my mother everything she felt horrible that she hadn't known. And a few teachers had an idea of what was going on and would let me know that I could talk to them if I needed to, but I was pretty headstrong and thought I could just handle everything myself so I never took anyone up on the offer.
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