Know The Difference Between Bullying And Teasing

The most frequent and often asked question put up by the audience from anti-bullying speakers is the “what is the big difference between bullying and teasing?” There is no doubt teasing and bullying both are a wrongful practice followed in the colleges and schools by the kids, but still bullying a hot button issue when it is overplayed in your vicinity.

 The primary motive to hire the anti-bullying speakers in the school assemblies New York is to spread awareness about the bullying and teach kids the way to combat this bad practice. You won’t imagine when the speakers start discussing the flip side of the bullying and teasing then guess what happened? Kids start to report a lot of bullying cases and how they feel about it. Going back to the question what is bullying and how it is different from teasing?

What is bullying?

Bullying has three major components – intentional, power grab, and repeated. The intentional bullying is purposely done to hurt someone. It can be aggressive or hurtful. Power grab bullying the bullies try to control or dominate you it can be physical, cyber-bullying, social, and emotional. Repeated bullying means the potential bullying someone again and again, for example, asking you some favor by threatening you to decipher your pictures on the internet, and this favor is asked over and over.   

What is teasing?

When bullies are questioned for bullying someone, they often come out with the false replies that were joking or kidding or teasing. Perhaps that’s true for them, but they won’t realize that harsh teasing is making them mean and teasing can become bullying when it takes the form of a power-grab. These students need the right counseling and a good character development program to understand what they’re doing is hurtful.

The key to diffuse bullying is to not let your mind get affected by the bullying. The kids you made suffered by bullying them need to report against this act to the parents and teacher immediately. Always take your foot front whenever you find someone trying to be rude with you or bully you right away.