Mobbing at school
Mobbing does not stop at school and even elementary school. Often the social isolation begins even during kindergarten and at the playground. Especially when children are exposed to enormous psychological stress at an early age, it can lead to considerable psychological and even physical disorders.
Growth problems and severe weight loss are often the result. Usually the school achievements also drop off strongly. Even children often develop severe depression and anxiety disorders.
This is especially the case when they are no longer isolated but are attacked by their classmates.A classic sign of bullying is that a child complains of stomach aches and headaches, which always occur before school attendance. In this case, parents should listen carefully. Education about bullying is also very important in schools.
Pupils and teachers should be familiar with the topic and recognize mobbers and mobbing victims as soon as possible and intervene. Unfortunately, bullying victims are usually alone because many children are afraid of becoming victims themselves if they stand up for the children concerned. Unfortunately, this fear is very often confirmed.
However, counselors or class teachers are very well suited as contact persons. They can achieve a lot in their lessons by educating the children. If children are affected, it can help to consult a child psychologist, so that psychological disorders can be counteracted as well as possible.
If the bullying does not stop despite all efforts, it is recommended in extremely serious cases to get your child out of this environment and to change schools, for example. Children who have a different social status than the rest of the class, have disabilities or speak a different language are particularly at risk of bullying. Often highly intelligent children or introverted children are also affected.
Mobbing through social networks
Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat offer an optimal platform for so-called cyberbullying, i.e. bullying over the Internet. The attacker, or “bully”, uses these services to harass, insult or expose his victim, for example by leaving mean comments on the victim’s page, editing pictures negatively or uploading humiliating videos. The anonymity of the Internet makes it particularly easy for the perpetrator to terrorize others, which is why cyberbullying is becoming an ever greater problem.
This form of bullying is often harder on the victim than harassment at school or at work, as he or she is vulnerable to attack 24 hours a day via the Internet and is therefore not even safe from it at home. In addition, the attacker does not see the reaction of the injured person and is not slowed down by it. The audience is also larger, since offensive content can be distributed at breakneck speed. Victims of cyberbullying attacks are still hardly protected and perpetrators are difficult to identify. The legal situation is lagging behind the development of the Internet in these matters.
