- Be frightened of walking to and from school (Fear of ambush and beating)
- Change their usual route (same reason)
- Not want you to go on the school bus (bags thrown around the bus, out of window, covert beating, threats, insults, no proper supervision)
- Beg you to drive them to school (attacks etc on the way even by those accompanying)
- Be unwilling to go to school or be 'school phobic' (general fear of continued bullying)
- Feel ill in the mornings (fear and stress)
- Start truanting (to avoid the pain)
- Begin to do poorly in their school work (stress, sometimes being asked for work to be copied)
- Come home with black eye, bruises etc
- Come home regularly with clothes or books destroyed (result of physical bullying)
- Come home starving (bully taking lunch or dinner money)
- Become withdrawn, start stammering, lack confidence (extreme fear and stress)
- Become distressed and anxious, stop eating (extreme fear and stress, feeling of hopelessness)
- Attempt or threaten suicide (feeling of hopelessness)
- Cry themselves to sleep, have nightmares (feeling of no redress, hopelessness)
- Have their possessions go missing (bullying, robbery)
- Ask for money or start stealing (to pay the bully)
- Continually 'lose' their pocket money (payment of bullies or blackmail)
- Refuse to talk about what's wrong (fear, hopelessness)
- Have unexplained bruises, cuts, scratches (physical bullying)
- Begin to bully other children, siblings (many bullied children do this)
- Become aggressive and unreasonable (taking out frustrations on other targets)
- Give improbable excuses for any of the above (fear, hopelessness, no redress)
- Get upset after receiving text message or after computer visit (cyber bullying)
- Spend too much time in room alone (unable to talk about the cyber bullying)
In the event of you being bullied or if you know of anyone being bullied in the Wicklow area then please don't hesitate to contact us
Phone 089-4567533 or email aemartialartist@gmail.com
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