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The Top Ten Signs that Your Child is Being Bullied

School interaction carves out kids temperaments for later in life. It is where attitudes, interests and affinities are developed and nurtured for later life. Being bullied is a serious problem that must be dealt with properly because bullying will cause serious implications on a child's development on many levels.

1. They could tell you that a student is picking on someone else and asking what you think the other student should do about it.

2. They could ask to go to a different school subcaste they hear that the other school is better (for whatever reason they think their parents will agree the other school may have nicer teachers, better education, better sports teams, and so on)

3. They will begin to come up with excuses not to go to school. In extreme cases, they may actually get sick when it is time to leave for school.

4. They lose the company of their long time friends. Kids know enough not to hang around kids who are being targeted by bullies.

5. They become an introvert - that is, they won't like doing group things at either home, at school, or in group sports. They may become very quite and shy and avoid people all together. They will feel alone and avoid contact with others.

6. In an attempt to "get back" at the world, they may begin to show violent tendencies towards younger siblings, or family pets. This may include a shift towards violent tendencies - verbal or physical.

7. Bullied people may begin to gravitate towards animals as their only friend.

8. At school, they begin to want to stay in for recess by doing tasks for the teacher. This may also be demonstrated by hanging around the teacher at recess to talk to them about anything they can come up with to say.

9. A change in regular behavior - eating habits, time management (students for an unknown reason become late going to school, out to recess, quick coming home after school, etc.)

10. They offer hints to the fact they are being bullied in the form of "Sam bothers me at recess" - be sure that you find out the details of what your child is actually telling you here. Odds are that if this was nothing, your child wouldn't have brought it up in the first place.