Bullying

Nowadays, bullying is a sad reality in most of the world. We can define "bullying" as any kind of abuse between two or more students, either physical, psychological, emotional or verbal abuse. In bullying, there are two important characters: the victim, who usually is very shy, quiet, with a very unsecure personality and a low esteem, and the bully, who is a very aggressive boy or girl, who likes to make jokes about another's personality or his physical aspect.

Bullying consists mainly of tormenting someone intentionally. Can start with hitting, shoving and insults, and reach levels with threats and taunts, including extortion to keep the money or someone's most precious assets. But also exist another kind of bullying, that is more recent. It's the cyber bullying, and consist to reject someone, make rumors about that one, and make that rumors surf on the net (in chat rooms, for example), especially in social networks like Facebook or Twitter, wich are very easy to access. 

Until now, have been identified eight kind of bullying, namely:

• Social lock
• Harassment
• Handling
• Constraints
• Social exclusion
• Intimidation
• Attacks
• Threats

And also have been identified some possible causes, related to:

• Psychological characteristics and home environment of the bully
• School environment
• Television

So, can be very hard for people noticing when someone is a bullying victim, because almost all the time, victims are very very discreet, either because of shame or fear. But we, as parents, school mates, teachers or friends, can do a lot of simple things to prevent this situation, like observe the attitudes of childrens, and talk a lot with them, of course, keep them informed about the Duties and Rights of childrens, and talk about bullying, emphasize that it is wrong and that is not an obligation to occurring.