Since October is National Bullying Prevention Month, I wanted to share some interesting facts about bullying.
Bully Psychology Today ("Bully Pulpit," May/June 2014) offers these observations about bullying:
- Bullying is not garden-variety aggression. It is a deliberate and repeated attempt to cause harm to others of lesser power.
- At age 8, children start to understand who has power and status and where they stand in the social network - and start experimenting with power.
- Bullies engage in a "shopping process" to seek out children who are younger, smaller or weaker. Children who become victims are often submissive even before they are picked on.
- Studies show that harshly punitive home environments can breed children who are at risk of becoming aggressive, emotionally dysregulated victims.
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