1. SuEllen Fried & Paula Fried
Bullies, Targets & Witnesses
SuEllen Fried & Paula Fried
YouTube - Bullying Speaker Tony Bartoli--STAND!, Stop BULLYING!

2. Some research indicates that over 160,000 stay home from school because of fear…

3. 3 Kinds of Bullying
Physical
Verbal
Emotional

4. Physical Hitting Pushing Kicking Shoving Punching Pulling hair
Tripping
Scratching
Pushing
Shoving
Pulling hair
Grabbing
Choking
Stabbing with pencil

5. Verbal Name calling Profanity Gossip Rumors Put downs Threatening
Humiliating
Talking about someone’s mother or family
Gossip
Rumors

6. Sticks and stones may break my bones BUT words will never hurt me!!!
Agree or disagree???? Verbal bullying

7. Sticks and stones can break my bones but words
my heart.

8. Emotional Laughing Pointing Staring Writing notes Giving ‘evil eye’
Ignoring
Body language
Gestures – “L’ - loser
Making a fist
excluding

9. Which is the most common?
Physical
Verbal
Emotional

10. Which is the most hurtful form of bullying?
Physical
Verbal
Emotional

11. Targets Bullies Witnesses

12. Target Cry, Comply, Deny or Fly off the handle
Girls, boys, kids, adults
Short, tall, thin, heavy
Wear braces or glasses
Different color hair, skin, or religion
Have a disability
Someone in their family has a disability
Changed schools
Repeated a grade/moved up a grade
Have a name someone can make fun of
Has different interests
Likes different music
Cry, Comply, Deny or Fly off the handle

13. Bullies They have problems in their family
They’re being abused at home
Older brother/sister picking on them
They want revenge
They want to be noticed
They want to be popular
They’re bored
They’re mean
They have been bullied by someone else and now they are bullying
They have seen it on TV, movies , video games
Peer pressure
Maybe they are lonely
They’re jealous
They don’t know how to make friends
They want power/control

14. Research on Bullies
Dr Eron in upstate NY- study of 690 third graders…update 10 years later in HS and found almost all seniors who were bullies in HS were also reported in 3rd grade…
10 years later discover 1 in 4 students who were identified in 3rd grade as bullies had a criminal record by the time they were 28.

15. More research on bullies
Study by Dan Olweus found that 60 % of children identified as bullies between grades 6-10 were cited for criminal behavior as adults…40% of those had 3 or more convictions

16. Witnesses – 70%
Power in numbers!!!!

17. Bullying Vs Teasing
Bullying: intent to harm, intensity & duration, abuse of power, target is vulnerable, target unsupported, continuing when asked to STOP
Bullying – when only one person laughing
Teasing – when both people are laughing
Power of a witness....