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By Terry Orr
The End
of Bullying Begins with Me: that’s the message during National Bullying
Prevention Month in October. It’s a time
when communities can unite nationwide to raise awareness for bullying prevention
through events, activities, outreach and education.
Bullying
can be defined many ways, but most see agree that bullying has occurred when:
- The behavior hurts another person in a physical or emotional manner;
- The harmful actions are willful and intentional; and
- The targets of bullying have trouble ending the behavior and defending themselves. (Source: Common Ground)
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We have all seen and all too often on the wrong end of a
bully – and quite frankly it is not any fun and downright dangerous at times. My experience happen in high school at the
hands of twin brothers – took almost a year to put an end to that. No one
should have to endure that sort of treatment.
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Did you
know that more than 16,000 students in the USA stay home each day because they're
scared of being bullied? This October PACER (Parent Advocacy Coalition for
Educational Rights) draws attention to the problem of bullying that affects
many disabled children and young adults. By drawing attention the organization
hopes to raise awareness to the fact that more needs to be done to tackle the
issue. (Source: National Awareness Days).
The Washington Post has a good article by Lamar Tyler who
finds out one of his children has become a bully. It is an interesting read – please click on
the link below to read the full article.
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Intimidation is another form of bullying and there seems
to have at least one person who thrives on intimidating others in every
organization and dealing with them is tricky at best. Now I personally do not react well to either
– and the last time I encountered this situation - it resulted in my early departure
of the project that was ending. In the
business world – sometimes stuff happens and really very little one can do
about it - in my case, just moved on to
something new to work. But remember,
there are resources available to help deal with bullying and intimidation.
References and Links:
- http://commongroundhelps.org/?p=3810
- http://www.stopbullying.gov/blog/?p=358
- http://www.nctsn.org/resources/public-awareness/bullying-prevention-awareness-month
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/national-bullying-prevention-month-when-your-child-is-a-bully/2012/10/01/8cd72c9a-0bdb-11e2-a310-2363842b7057_blog.html#
- http://www.national-awareness-days.com/national-bullying-prevention-month.html
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