All of us at one time or another will have been bullied, either at home, at school or in the work place and it’s an experience that often leaves its mark.
So our post today aims to share some awesome organisations doing great work helping children who have been bullied, as well as offering you a space to share your own stories about being bullied or perhaps even, being the bully. We tend to forget that bullies have a story too, and that we can’t truly address this kind of behaviour without seeing this often neglected part of the equation.
If you haven’t checked them out yet, Ditch The Label does some incredible work on this front, and if you like the sound of what they do, you can get involved as well.
Another one to watch is Anti Bullying Pro, which also offers free teaching resources and some brilliant stories and stats on bullying in schools in the UK.
If you’d like to read a little more about how bullying affects mental health, we recently wrote an article for The Huffington Post about this and we’d love to hear your thoughts.
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What comes out of our mouths is the worse weapon. When does teasing and banter become bullying?? When it hurts !! BUT you cant see the bruises you leave.Happy people don’t bully so what is the issue for the? Do you ask? We need to ask WHY are they bullying .Bullies and victims are subliminally attracted as they have the same need to be accepted. We should be teaching resilience in schools – some of us have it by nature but we CAN teach it and how to develop it
ANY abuse including bullying is power and control over the vulnerable for personal gain knowingly to cause harm or injury. So who do you know who is vulnerable ?because we ALL are at times and nobody knows what is behind the eyes on any day
This is another reason children abused often only disclose later in life – you NEVER forget the bullying words.
Negative behaviours always have negative reasons – so drill down and uncover the issues
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My experience was that the best ways were to either ignore the bully (very effective) or to bully the bully (equally as effective but more difficult). As a ten-year-old, a group of my friends collared my tormentor (a boy of the same age), got him in an arm-lock and suggested I hit him. I declined (one thing I’m still really proud of!) and told them to let him go. He never touched me again.
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i was bullied at secondry school for about 2 yrs but lucky for me i got a Raleigh chopper bike for xmas in 1974. the toughest lad in the school who was 2 yrs older than me happened to live just down the street and when he seen my bike he made a deal with me. he said if you let me ride the chopper bike to school with me on the back every day i will make shure nobody ever bullies you again. i jumped at the chance and boy did he keep to his word, he sorted all the bad boys out in one day and they didnt even dare look at me anymore after that. brilliant.
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That’s such a lovely story, Keith, thank you for sharing it.
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