Bullying in kids
Impacts of Bullying in kids
The aim of this paper is to understand bullying kids and how its impacts in kid’s life. The paper will outline three main negative effects of bullying in kids. The paper will concentrate on the effects of bullying between the age of six and ten years. Bullying is excessive use of force or threats in trying to dominate fellow students or kids. it is a repeated behavior and forms a habit where the bully is always exercising his rules against his subjects with intentions of scaring or even hurting them (Hinduja & Patchin, 2010). In most cases the bully possesses a bigger body compared to kids and his hostility scares the other kids. Usually this behavior of bullying develops in the context where the bullies are trying to prove their superiority against their fellow kids. in order to understand the negative impacts of bullying, you must be able to clearly point out different ways kids reacts to bullying. The method of bullying common in kids is the one-on-one bullying where the bullies have followers who help them in their bullying activities. Another type of bullying among the kids is cyberbullying, where kids are bullied in social media for their physical, emotional or social disabilities (Hinduja & Patchin, 2010).
The types of bullying discussed above have different impacts on kids’ lives. The increased aggression in kids in most part of United States is associated with bullying (McQuade, Colt, Meyer, et al., 2009). The effects of bullying in kids may include physical harm, emotional distress and psychological disorders. In this paper, we will look into three main effects of all kinds of bullying. First, bullying in kids may cause depression as the kids grow in an environment full of bullies and psychopaths. Kids with physical disabilities regularly receive negative comments in social media. Quaden Bayles is one of the kids who received negative comments in his twitter account. Most tweets in his account concentrated on his height of which Quaden Bayles never took it so well. Depression occurs when one regularly receives information that hurts emotionally. The issue of depression in kids may be carried out into their adulthood and therefore affect their lives as well. Continuous bullying causes change in moods which therefore result to post traumatic stress disorders (PTSD). Effects of depression are serious medical condition, which when not taken care of may worsen.
Suicidal thoughts are long-term effect of bullying especially for the victim. The victims of bullying develop suicidal thoughts at some point due to continued exposure of hatred and physical harm. According to Roland, (2002), the feeling of committing suicide develops over time when the bullies are not dealt with on time. Bullying may not be the immediate cause of developing suicidal thoughts, however there are causal relationship that connects the two. Bullying phenomena must be looked at to curb such issues of suicides (Wolke & Lereya, 2015). Kids who receive bullying comments now and then tend to develop trust issues even to their close friends. They tend not to stay on their own especially in school to avoid being caught in the middle of the bullies. The victim’s parents are often not aware of their kid’s experiences at school, and the kids tend not talk about the matter with their parents and teachers.
References
Hinduja, S., & Patchin, J. W. (2010). Bullying, cyberbullying, and suicide. Archives of suicide research, 14(3), 206-221.
McQuade, S. C., Colt, J. P., Meyer, N. B., & Meyer, N. B. (2009). Cyber bullying: Protecting kids and adults from online bullies. ABC-CLIO.
Roland, E. (2002). Bullying, depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts. Educational research, 44(1), 55-67.
Wolke, D., & Lereya, S. T. (2015). Long-term effects of bullying. Archives of disease in childhood, 100(9), 879-885.