How to Stop and Survive Bullies!

Bullies can be mean, we all know that. But do you know how to survive them? You are now reading How To?? where we write about different things that tell you how to! This segment is going to be about how to survive and stop bullies! Without further ado let’s jump right in.

First let’s lay down the basics. The most common causes of verbal and physical bullying are that your bully might be neglected by his or her parents, and so that makes them want to seek attention, because the attention is lacked at home. Another cause is that they may have learned it is the right thing to do at home! And so they think nothing is wrong if they hurt you or your feelings, because their parents or someone at home taught them it was okay. Another thing that can cause bullying is that they are jealous of what you may have or what you may look like, or even something as simple as they think you're smarter!

Now there are darker ways of bullying, also found or known as cyber bullying. Right now about 43% of kids have been bullied somewhere online; the crazy thing is that one in four people have been bullied more than once. The sad thing is that only one in every ten victims will tell a parent or a trusted adult. The common reason for cyberbullying is the bullies are motivated by revenge. Why they do this is most likely because they want the person to feel their pain. In addition to that, the aggressor will give into peer pressure. Why they would do something like this is because they want to fit in with their group of friends or cliques. Lastly the bully would believe they wouldn’t get caught. They would think this because if the person posts anonymously they feel as though wouldn’t get caught.

Now onto how to stop and actually survive the bully! Firstly you need to make sure the bully knows what they are doing and wait a day and see if they stop. If they don’t stop, immediately tell a grownup. Of course if you feel you must skip this step there are other ways. But we do strongly suggest you tell someone. Sometimes you can just walk away from them if they're not hurting you or anything, or tell the bully directly to please stop, but don’t yell at them; use a calm voice so it doesn’t draw attention and cause a bigger problem. If you haven’t got the main idea it is you need to stand up to bullying to stop bullying! Of course there are other places you can go to find more information on bullying but that’s all folks! See you the next time where we write a How To??