Bullying Behaviors
Someone doing this may use words or actions to scare a peer into doing something they might not normally do.
What is intimidation?
This type of bullying includes hitting, kicking, posturing, and stealing/damaging others' property.
What is Physical Bullying?
These are the people you should tell when you see/hear bullying occur.
Who are staff/adults?
What is power?
This is the word for when someone bullies their peer to get back at them for something.
What is revenge?
These types of words or phrases are meant to demean, hurt, upset, or instigate someone.
What are Insults?
This type of bullying includes name calling, insults, and threats. It often starts out harmless and quickly escalates.
What is Verbal bullying?
This is when you stop paying attention to the bully to take away their audience.
What is ignoring?
Friendly teasing is different from bullying because the two people see each other as this rather than having different levels of power.
This is the word for why someone might bully a person from a different or unknown to them.
What is fear?
When someone passes along information that isn't true or isn't theirs to share, they are spreading these.
What are Rumors?
This type of bullying is harder to see and often happens behind someone's back. It is used to harm the person's reputation
What is Social Bullying?
This response happens when you change the subject, or use other means to take the bullying victim's attention away from the bullying behavior.
What is distraction?
The intent of bullying is to do this to a person.
What is harm them?
This is the word that describes when someone bullies a peer to get their way.
What is coercion or intimidation?
This is when someone uses their physical presence to threaten someone such as raising balled fists, or getting in another person's face
What is Posturing?
This type of bullying uses technology, particularly social media and can occur in public or private.
What is Cyber Bullying?
What is inviting your peer to join you?
Often a person engaging in bullying is seeking this from some of his peers at the expense of the victim.
What is acceptance?
This is the word for why someone might bully a person who they perceive as more popular or better at something than they are.
What is insecurity?
This happens when a bully refuses to include another person or campaigns to have others refuse to include the person
What is Exclusion?
The type of bullying happens when multiple people join in to bully a single person
What is Mob/Group Bullying?
This is what you can say to someone when they are bullying someone to call out their behavior.
What is...
"That's not cool."
"Knock it off."
"Stop that."
"We are all on the same team."
"We don't do that here."
This is what you should do if you are teasing someone and they ask you to quit.
What is stop teasing?
Often, people who bully experienced this in the past.
What is bullying?