Children are prone to be negatively affected by their fears. At an early age, they can develop phobias which they could carry for the rest of their lives. Not only that, living in fear hinders a person living his or her life to the fullest.
Bullying is one way of exercising one's power over someone. It portrays hierarchy in a wrong way. Only a few brave ones has ever tried fighting back with these bullies but the rest are just contented moving on as if they were accepting their defeat. Today, bullying is everywhere. We, in the Philippines, have already made a law against bullying because it is so blatant that authorities needed to make some penalties in order to stop it.
In an article by Tim Woda, Short and Long Term Effects of Bullying - The Victim & the Bully from uknowkids.com, states the different effects of bullying in a kid as he starts with a statement, "Bullying is a major problem today." In his article he emphasizes that a person who is bullied has a tendency to lose his self-esteem, his concentration and focus on things. Given those symptoms, it can already affect the kid's performance in school leading to worry of embarrassing their parents. Worst case, the kid might not be able to stay long in school and drop out eventually.
Now, there are different types of bullying. There is one which is also viral these days, it is what they call cyber bullying. Coming from the name itself, technology has been used in many ways but there are things that we can't prevent from it--the negative use of technology. A lot of cases regarding cyber bullying have been piling up as the years gone by.
In relation to what Tim Woda has said, Jason Koebler also has something to say regarding bullying. In Children who are bullied are more likely to grow up to be troubled adults from usnews, bullying leaves a scar in the minds of its victim which we call trauma. Trauma can be worsen and end up resulting to having some mental problems. Furthermore, bullying was linked to suicidal thoughts. " About a fourth of children said they were bullied at least once.", says Koebler. Imagine how many of them thinks of attempting suicide everyday.
We are a generation, we make our own future. We must be mindful of the effects of what we are doing not only to the people that we meet every single day but also as we effect them, the people that they reach in their lives. Everything we do has a riffle effect, believe it or not. We must be aware on how make the world better and not the other way around.
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