Bullying
Western International University
Donna LePaige
August 31, 2010

Bullying Interviews
First off, after asking people about their thoughts on bullying, and what might be done to stop it from occurring for children, most of them came to the same conclusion, we as a whole have to teach our children from the beginning that treating others with kindness and caring is the right thing to do. This will aid in their becoming future adults who continue to teach the next children the same wisdom.
The first person interviewed was asked what they think is a good way to help teach children not to bully others. He said it must first start within the family is important especially if there are siblings as he had. The parents and other adult family members need to teach how they all live together and teach that each person is an individual and has feelings. His parents taught that because they all needed to pull together and a unit that bulling each other was not acceptable. The siblings could not interact and play with each other, and had activities with the family taken away as well.
Reasoning, if you cannot be kind and get along then you have to sit it out and be by yourself. His parents also tried to explain the importance of not hurting others to get your own way and that working together in play or life is a better idea. Having talked to a few friends and co-workers the answers were mostly the same. Families need to let the children know from a young age that being a bossy person or hostel hurtful person is not the way to act. People need to be raised to treat others, as you wanted to be treated.
Unfortunately, some kids grow up with bulling and violence in the home that they see and learn from the adults around them. This can carry over into how they interact with others outside of the home. Some kids will take out their own frustrations on their peers because, they are not happy, or are not being taught properly at home. Other children may be more introverted and not be aggressive and let others bully them just as they witnessing this kind of behavior at home.
Looking at how kids also learn from other peers and want to be accepted in their groups shows another example of how bulling can happen. Children who hang out with others who think they are above others. This form of peer group pressure can make the child or children feel they have to go with their group or possibly be target for being bullied themselves.
If a child learns from a parent bad skills in social inter action, or there is no real caring going on at home, they may turn to aggressive behavior to others. This is seen in gangs, children want to know they are cared for even if it is in a negative way so they join a gang. Children want to know someone cares and is kind, also to set rules and guidelines.
We know in this world there is bulling by many other ways, and not just in school. Children see it on TV shows and the news from around the world. The children view violent countries, religious groups, and corporation of greed that dominates others, and their belongings, such as land, freedom, food, and so on. This all can teach aggressive action over others. This plays a role in teaching children that to get what they want and to have power over others; children model what they see from us.
In this country, some schools have good programs to help teach tolerance toward others and some have zero tolerance policies on bullying. Parents and the community need to get involved with the schools and other positive community organizations to help change children’s views and attitudes about getting along. As a global community, not enough is being done to help change this bullying generation. Parents, schools, and local community organizations should be more aware of teaching children from all lifestyles on the fundamentals of compassion, caring, empathy, and kindness to your fellow human.
Some schools also have group solution teams where educators and parents get children together to talk about ways to stop and change what is happening with school bullying. The idea is that by getting the children together from different peer groups, and non-peer groups can help them learn to get along better by coming to a mutual understanding about each other. If you put different people together and try to form a caring and compassionate relationship towards each other it can work.
In reality some people will not change there are factors of behavioral issues of negative human nature, but it can depend on other factors such as what has been taught at home, school and the community. As our global society grows, humans need to help teach each other especially the children, with love and caring guidance because some children do not get it at all. It does affect us all in the in the world some way or another. What do we want, bullies to lord over us, or do we want people who are caring good stewards of our society? Our children are our future.