Challenge: Children exposed
to risk, stress, or truma
Topic: Children who are bullied
I chose this topic
because I love children and when it comes to them being hurt emotionally and
physically, I do not like seeing something like that happening to them. As a
child I was being bullied because children would laugh at the clothes and shoes
I wore to school. I was a person who kept to myself and did not say much to
anyone. Now that I have a daughter, she was bullied by children of the same
race because of the color of her skin.
She
was bullied during her elementary school years, which carried over into middle school
and lastly to high school. There were lots of children who would call her names
like, smut, tar baby or a monkey. There were children who she thought was her
friend would sometimes join in on the bullying.
As an
adult, I have seen children being bullied or have talked about someone bullying
them beginning at a young age. I have come in contact with children who are
bullied and with the person that was bulling others. In my Pre-K classroom, I
have came up with lesson plans to incorporate in the classroom to help prevent
this from happening. I will also have the children to help come up with some
ideas about how and what to do when they feel someone is bullying them or a
friend.
Cyber bullying is really wrong. If cyber bullies were treated like any other criminal with jail time, this problem would not be so bad. I believe that the laws need to be very stern for anyone caught cyber bullying.
ReplyDeleteAnitra,
ReplyDeleteIt is so important to consider that all kids involved in bullying even by seeing it can be affected. Teachers have to work on controlling bullying and ensuring that effects can be minimized. Teachers also have to work with child, parents, and school to protect the bullied child.
Because bullying is behavior that repeats or has the potential to be repeated, teachers have to show a commitment to make bullying stop. They have to take effort to ensure that it stops. It is vital for students who bully to learn that their behavior is wrong and harms others.
Reference
Respond to Bullying. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.stopbullying.gov/respond/support-kids-involved/index.html