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What is "verbal bullying"?
Bullying using words/speaking
What is mental health?
The level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness.
What is "physical bullying"?
Bulling involving physically harming a person or their possessions.
What is self esteem?
How someone feels about themselves and their abilities.
What is "cyber bullying"?
Bullying that takes place online.
Give 2 examples of physical bullying:
Hitting
Poking
Pinching
Chasing
Shoving
Damaging personal property
Uninvited and unwanted sexual touching
Define bullying.
Repeated behaviour that hurts, harms or humiliates another person on purpose.
What is "social bullying"?
Bullying meant to harm someone socially.
Give two examples of cyber bullying:
Any of the following that takes place online... Name-calling, Put-downs, Threats, Spreading rumours, Making rude or stereotypical comments about someone’s culture ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, race, and/or religion, Making unwanted and uninvited sexual remarks about someone’s body
Give 2 examples of social bullying:
¡Exclusion – leaving people/a person out
¡Gossip
¡Ganging up
¡Mobbing
¡Scapegoating – singling someone out for blame for something
¡Humiliating people on purpose
¡Coercing people to do something
¡Graffiti intended to put others down or break up friendships on purpose
Give 2 examples of verbal bullying:
- Name-calling
- Put-downs
- Threats
- Spreading rumours
- Unwanted sexual remarks
- Making rude or stereotypical comments about someone’s culture ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, race, and/or religion
What is the difference between high and low self esteem?
Low self esteem = feeling bad about yourself, lacking confidence, etc
High self esteem = feeling confident in yourself, liking yourself, etc
Suggest two mental health effects of being bullied.
Low self esteem, depression, suicide, self harm, anxiety
What is the difference between a passive and an active bystander?
A passive bystander does not do anything about what they see, an active bystander does something to help.
What is a bystander?
Someone who witnesses bullying.
If someone felt like bullying someone else, suggest two activities they could do instead?
Exercise, therapy, painting/art, boxing, talk to someone they trust about how they feel
Which of the following is NOT an example of physical bullying? Explain why.
Hiding one student's backpack everyday after he asked them to stop.
Punching a boy on the football team hard enough to knock him out.
Knocking your ex best friend's lunch out of her hand when you see her in the cafeteria.
Pushing a younger child over in the playground when you see them.
Punching a boy on the football team hard enough to knock him out.
A one time event is not bullying.
Suggest two reasons why somone might bully others:
Low self esteem, mental health issues, having a hard time at home, being bullied themselves...
What role does each person play in the below scenario?
Sarah "hey look, here comes four eyes!"
Lucy "what a nerd!"
Sarah "hey, four eyes, why don't you marry your math book 'cause no one here will date you?!"
Ally "hey guys, he's actually really nice, don't be mean"
Sarah - the main bully
Lucy - a bully
Ally - active bystander
Explain the difference between bullying and banter:
Banter is harmless joking, and the person in the joke finds it funny. Bullying is laughing at someone and they don't find it funny, as well as many other behaviours.