Childhood Bullying: How to Deal with am
Bully dey make every day living hell for pikin, all activities like to go chop for the school canteen or to enter school bus fit turn to nightmare. Bullying dey leave deep emotional scar and fit turn extremely dangerous if threats to life don dey, violent attacks, damage to properties, and sometimes death. Childhood bullying na frequent sickness for the society, e dey cause severe mental and physical concerns for both the victim and bully. for teenagers, the risk factors dey higher; victims of bullies dey usually get disability or sometimes medical condition like skin or food allergies, diabetes, and asthma.
How You Go Identify Bullying?
Na three major characteristics go help identify bully:
Intention. Recurrence. Power.
Bullying na behavioral pattern. Bully aim na to cause pain with physical attacks, verbal assaults, rejections, and e dey constantly do all these acts to the victim. E don dey observed say na boys dey experience physical bully, while girls na emotional bullying dem dey experience. Bullying dey happen for schools and recently e dey happen for social media. The children wen dey bully sometimes dey come from influential families or children wen dey bigger, stronger, and popular for group or school.
Who be Bully?
Bully fit be anybody; friend, stranger, sibling, parent, or classmate. Wen dem do survey of 1009 students, classmates and friends na em dey top the list of bullies at 55%, whilst parents and siblings na dem dey least at 15%.
Most times as parents or guidance, e dey challenging to know if your pikin na target, witness, or the bully gangan. The constant bullying don increase in the last few decades and em long-term consequences include suicide attempts and random killing.
Types Of Childhood Bullying
Na four major forms of bullying dey and dem dey highlighted according to dia commonness.
Physical bullying includes kicking, punching, constant slaps, and damaging personal properties
Verbal bullying na in the form of intimidation, racist slurs, verbal abuse, insulting, and name-calling
Social bullying na intention to damage the victim reputation through gossips or cause public humiliation wen dem gang up with oda people to do the same thing
Cyber bullying na the use of electronic means like phones and computers to spread rumors and attacks via social media. Another form na to disgrace the person dem go expose personal information to the public online, or by harassment.
The Effects Of Childhood Bullying
Negative effects of bullying in childhood for both bullies and victims. The short-term effects na poor academic performance, antisocial personality disorders, poor behavioral conduct, social disengagements, attempted or completed suicide, and substance abuse.
The long term effect na mental health conditions, aggression wen go turns to crime, substance abuse (alcohol or drugs), and serious relationship issues
Preventive Measures against Bullying
nor be all children dey willing to share dia experience with bullying but signs dey like make dem dey withdrawn, absent, make dem get feeling of anxiety and depression, panic attacks, or body pains. Follow person wen get authority talk if dem dey bully you.
As guardian or parent, talk with your pikin and once you notice say dem dey bully your wards, first show empathy as your pikin get the right to dey safe. Seek legal action if counsel fails and hold person accountable for the criminal act.
Preventive measures include make we educate people about kindness and respect, promoting positive friendships. Also encouraging victims to participate for activities wen dem gogo enjoy will boost self-esteem and confidence. Most importantly, make we ask victims to speak out as well as make punishment dey for the ones wen dey bully people e go serve as warning for others.
