Forms of Bullying

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Cyber bullying
Negative text messages on cell phones, e-mail, or voice-mail messages, web pages, and so on Direct and indirect forms of bullying often occur together. All of these behaviors can be interrelated.

Direct Bullying (physical)
Hitting, slapping. Elbowing, shouldering (slamming someone with your shoulder)
Shoving in a hurtful or embarrassing way
Taking, stealing, damaging or defacing belongings or other property
Restraining
Pinching

Indirect Bullying
Destroying and manipulating relationships (turning your best friend against you)
Destroying status within peer group
Destroying reputations
Humiliating and embarrassment
Intimidation
Gossiping, spreading nasty and malicious rumors and lies about someone
Excluding someone from a group (social rejection or isolation)
Stealing boyfriends or girlfriends to hurt someone
Negative body language (facial expressions, turning  your back to someone)
Threatening gestures, taunting, pestering, insulting remarks and gestures
Glares and dirty looks, nasty jokes, notes passed around, anonymous notes
Hate petitions (promising to hate someone)

 Verbal bullying

Name calling
Insulting remarks and put-downs
Repeated teasing
Racist remarks or other harassment
Threats and intimidation
Whispering behinds someone’s back