Have you ever bullied or been bullied?

If you have bullied or been bullied, then you should know how bullying feels like. If bullying impacts us as adults, you can imagine the potential damage that bullying can do to children or adolescents.
Bullying is very negative and creates major problems for our society. Nothing good comes out of bullying. It could very well change or ruin a person's life or self-esteem. In fact, it does ruin many people's lives. Kids can be mentally scarred if they are teased often. Even worse, they could be killed or fatally injured if the bullying gets extreme. Over the years we have seen more and more cases of young people who take their lives by not being able to deal with pressure from friends or classmates.

There are many causes for bullying which must be taken care of before bullying can be stopped. T.V. violence, families in poverty, and mis-teachings are just several of the many serious causes for bullying. Bullying must be stopped or prevented no matter how long it will take, it is a deeply concerning matter and looks like we are so used to acting in that way that we see it naturally these days.

Bullying does not always have to be childish play, although many start doing it as a simple game but also it can be extremely violent when it gets out of control. People may be bruised, injured, or even killed. Kids under bad influence may turn very violent. Parents, relatives, friends, T.V., music, internet and pictures may all influence people, especially when they are depressed or are in a lowered state of mind. Violence on T.V. is a very big influence, particularly the wrestling and fighting shows but above all, video games that are in creasingly violent and explicit, showing violence, death, blood, profanity so normally that it scares.
Also, T.V. shows are quite readily available for anyone to watch. Kids may try "moves" on people at school because they believe it's cool. As well, cooperation from childrens' parents is important, some parents actually encourage their children to fight to look cool or don't teach them properly.

Kids must take their own initiative, as well, they must find out what's wrong and what's right for themselves sometimes. Many kids don't take bullying seriously. However, when a real incident occurs, they are unprepared, shocked, regretful, or dead. For that reason, as parents, our role is very important, to strengthen the bonds of trust with our children, to maintain an open and fluid communication so that they feel free to trust us with any type of problem or situation, no matter how difficult it may be.
Bullying must stop, for it is destroying the lives and futures of many innocents, perhaps not killing them, but ruining them. People may end up physically distort others and start focusing in contribute positive things to other people lives. Let us remember that emotionally not everyone has the same strength, and although it seems like a funny comment to us, but it can negatively affect others.