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Over many years we have seen countless amount of children's media, including books and movies, that touch on the concept and idea of bullying. Not only is this a continuous theme within different media platforms but also within children's everyday life.

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Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. There are two main levels of bullying including an imbalance of power, where an individual uses their advantage of power such as strength and popularity to control or put down another individual. And then there is repetition, where the bullying continues over a period of time or just more than once.

Then there is different types of bulling such as:

Verbal Bullying

Physical Bullying

Social Bullying

Cyber Bullying

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The National Center for Educational Statistics collected and established statistics that is centered around bullying within children's lives and schools. Some of the statistics show:

One out of every five (20.2%) students report being bullied

41% of students who reported being bullied at school indicated that they think the bullying would happen again (Shows the level repetition as talked about before)

Of those students who reported being bullied, 5% were pushed, shoved, tripped, or spit on (Physical Bullying); 3% were made fun of, called names, or insulted; 13% were the subject of rumors, and 5% were excluded from activities on purpose (Social Bullying)

The reasons for being bullied reported most often by students include physical appearance, race/ethnicity, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation.

One in five (20.9%) tweens (9 to 12 years old) has been cyberbullied, cyberbullied others, or seen cyberbullying

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Cyberbullying is when an individual uses a type of digital technology, most often social media platforms like instagram and snapchat, to provoke social bullying like name calling, threats, spread rumors or simply intimidate another individual. One of the worst parts of cyberbullying amongst children is that it can happen at anytime of the day, as long as the bully has access to digital devices, and not just when the children are on school grounds. This leaves no safe space for a child to develop.

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Cyberbully is a movie that was released in July of 2011 that centers around a teenage girl, Taylor, who experiences her own cyberbully. It begins when Taylor's younger brother hacks her new computer and posts an inappropriate status to a social media platform which then leads to other students responding to the post in awful ways making her fear having to face everyone at school. After this Taylor then befriends a stranger on this social media platform who she believes to be a friend but this "friend" ends up spreading a nasty rumor about Taylor which then provokes the other students to bully her even more. It comes to a breaking point where the boy Taylor has a crush on and even her two best friends turn their back on her, resulting Taylor to fall into a depression and attempts to take her own life.

This movie shows the horrors and reality of cyberbullying and the effect it can have on an individual. The use of the social media platforms as a use of bullying throughout the movie provides an insight on how cyberbullying is prevalent in children's lives specifically through social media platforms that almost all children use.

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Bullying within Races and LGTBQ+ communities 

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Bullying within Races and LGTBQ+ communities 

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The National Center for Educational Statistics also noted bullying in terms of Race groups and LGBTQ+ communities which they stated to associate with negative emotional and physical health effects. They found statistics such as:

23% of African-American students, 23% of Caucasian students, 16% of Hispanic students, and 7% of Asian students report being bullied at school

More than one third of adolescents reporting bullying report bias-based school bullying

70.1% of LGBTQ students were verbally bullied (called names, threatened) in the past year because of their sexual orientation and 59.1% because of their gender expression, and 53.2% based on gender

48.7% of LGBTQ students experienced cyberbullying in the past year

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Warning signs that a child is bullying others 

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Warning signs that a child is bullying others 

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Educators, Guardians and parents need to be able to recognize when a child or student is the bully in a situation. Some of these signs could be:

Get into physical or verbal fights

Have friends who bully others

Have unexplained extra money or new belongings

Blame others for their problems

Don’t accept responsibility for their actions

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Bullying has a major effect on children and there are ways that parents, guardians and teachers will be able to recognize the signs that a student might be a victim of bullying. Some of these signs could include:

Unexplainable injuries

Changes in eating habits, like suddenly skipping meals or binge eating. Kids may come home from school hungry because they did not eat lunch

Declining grades, loss of interest in schoolwork, or not wanting to go to school

Sudden loss of friends or avoidance of social situations

Frequent headaches or stomach aches, feeling sick or faking illness

Self-destructive behaviors such as running away from home, harming themselves, or talking about suicide

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Mean girls is one of the most popular movies amongst children and teens. Mean Girls was released in 2004 and centers around the popular girls in school, and the "uncool" kids trying to get revenge on them. The popular girls constantly are bullying other students in school, by making mean comments about other students behind their back and even creating a burn book that is filled with nasty comments and rumors about all of the girls within their grade. The so called "uncool" kids recruit the new girl, Cady, to get their revenge on their rivals. They use forms of bullying in order to do this, such as replacing face moisturizer with foot cream and giving it to Regina.

Bullying is the center of attention in this movie, and with the commercial approach and the use as using bullying as a form of revenge, it may be presenting young viewers the wrong impressions of bullying. They may see bullying as a light hearted thing or even believe that using bullying as a form of revenge is okay and/or the right thing to do.

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13 Reasons Why was originally a book written by Ray Asher, that was later re-popularized into a Netflix series seen by many adolescents and young teens. 13 Reasons why takes on bullying in a more serious light as it tells the story of why a teenage girl, Hannah Baker, chose to take her life. It highlights all of the forms of bullying that this teen has gone through including social bullying as well as cyberbullying that ultimately led her to this decision. This book/movie serious is highly criticized as many believe it makes children believe that suicide is the only way to end or fix bullying