Bullying

Bystander

A classmate or adult who witnesses bullying taking place.

Target

A person who a bully often seeks out as a victim.

Upstander

A person who sees wrong and acts. Stands up for what is right and does their best to help support and protect someone who is being hurt.

Bully

An individual who regularly menaces others for personal gain.

Distressed

Extremely upset or unhappy

Compassion

Feeling empathy for and wanting to help another in need.

Bullying

Intimidating/frightening people weaker than yourself

Exclusion

Purposefully leaving another person out of an activity or discussion in order to hurt their feelings.

Assertiveness

Standing up for yourself and what you believe in while being respectful of the rights and beliefs of others.

Fear

The emotion that holds bystanders away from helping a victim. The emotion that a victim feels when being bullied.

Indirect Bullying

The spreading of rumors, gossip, or anonymous actions that are meant to hurt another person.

Teasing

Tormenting another in an often clever but cruel way

Respect

Treating people, places, and things with kindness.

Cyberbullying

Using the internet to bully - text messages, unpleasant e-mails, Twitter and Facebook postings, etc. to damage someone's reputation.

Name-calling

an attack on a person instead of an issue Resorting to saying bad things about your opponent

Insecure

lacking self-confidence or assurance

Vulnerable

open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected

Make threats

threaten