{"id":613,"date":"2014-12-16T12:19:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T12:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/?page_id=613"},"modified":"2017-10-25T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:08:10","slug":"stopping-bullying","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/pupil-zone\/pupil-support\/stopping-bullying\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping Bullying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody has the right to hurt other people by hitting them, calling them names, spreading rumours about them or doing anything else which is intended to upset them. \u00a0Bullies try to justify their actions by saying that it is their victims fault for being different. \u00a0 They may pick on someone who is tall or small, fat or thin, or wears glasses, or has a different accent, or another religion, or is shy or clever, or good looking or disabled or whatever. \u00a0Any excuse will do, and if there is no real difference the bullies will invent one. \u00a0 If this is happening to you, tell yourself that it is not your fault, and that it is the bullies who need to change, not you.<\/p>\n<h3>What to do<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Talk to someone you can trust: a teacher, parent, friend or relative.<\/li>\n<li>Be persistent. \u00a0 If the first person you talk to ignores you don\u2019t give up; try again.<\/li>\n<li>If you can, write down everything the bullies have done or said to you and how you feel. \u00a0 Be careful to write down only things which really happen. \u00a0 Discuss this with the person who will listen.<\/li>\n<li>Most importantly, do something. \u00a0Sometimes bullying stops quickly, but doing nothing means it may continue until someone is seriously upset or hurt. \u00a0 This could be you, or the bullies could find new victims, of they are not challenged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What Not To Do<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t try to deal with the problem on your own; there is nothing wrong with asking for help.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t hit the bullies. \u00a0 You might end up being accused of bullying yourself.<\/li>\n<li>Always tell the truth about what has happened. \u00a0 Don\u2019t exaggerate. \u00a0If a small part of what you saying is shown to be untrue, then it throws everything else into doubt.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t believe all the lies that the bullies tell about you.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t hide what is happening form the adults you trust. \u00a0 Keeping things secret is the bullies\u2019 biggest weapon against you. \u00a0 That is why they go to so much trouble to try to stop you from telling!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody has the right to hurt other people by hitting them, calling them names, spreading rumours about them or doing anything else which is intended to upset them. \u00a0Bullies try to justify their actions by saying that it is their victims fault for being different. \u00a0 They may pick on someone who is tall or small, fat or thin, or wears glasses, or has a different accent, or another religion, or is shy or clever, or good looking or disabled or whatever. \u00a0Any excuse will do, and if there is no real difference the bullies will invent one. \u00a0 If this is happening to you, tell yourself that it is not your fault, and that it is the bullies who need to change,<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/pupil-zone\/pupil-support\/stopping-bullying\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":149,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-613","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2992,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/613\/revisions\/2992"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}