What is bullying?
Bullying goes against your rights as a child.
Bullying is face to face and/or online behaviour. When you are being bullied in person or online, it can make you feel hurt, scared, left out and afraid.
You might feel that things have got out of control and that you don’t know what to do to make it stop, or at least feel able to cope while it’s going on.
The bullying might be hurting you physically in your body or emotionally in your feelings, and even if it only happens once you may be worried that it’ll happen again.
What is bullying behaviour?
Bullying behaviour happens face to face and online and can include:
- Being called names, being teased or made fun of
- Being hit, pushed or kicked
- Having your belongings taken or damaged
- Being ignored, left out, or having rumours spread about you in
- Being humiliated
- Receiving abusive messages or having nasty comments made about you online
- Being targeted because of who you are or how people see you
This can hurt you physically, mentally or emotionally. Even if bullying take place once, the threat or worry that it will happen again can feel very real.
Bullying can also happen because of people’s prejudices towards other people; because they’re different in some way or are perceived to be different. But being different isn’t the problem – the problem lies in other people’s attitudes and behaviour towards what makes someone different.
