Child and adolescent mobbing: how to protect your child?

I spoke to teachers on the topic “Mobbing/bullying in modern children's literature” and saw a great response, which indicates that the problem exists, but teachers find themselves alone with it, often without even knowing how to approach it.

Parents often ask me how they can explain to their children why they should read. I usually give a few arguments that smart parents and without my recommendation, they could be used to talk to children about the benefits of reading. But after I was persecuted and bullied while working at university, I looked at my arguments from a different angle.

Mathematician. A story from the life of Tatiana Rick, a writer, psychologist, teacher and author of textbooks.

My girlfriend and I were going to school, and the jerk was following us. He was two years younger, scary and nasty. We first giggled and then started joking loudly about his squeaky voice and gait. The freak started shouting curses, and we snapped boldly and decisively in response. The school gates were won by the winners of the fight. And suddenly a kid jumped up to us a cut lower. He came close to me and hissed, looking me angrily in the eye: “If you still say something offensive to him, I'll hit you! It won't be enough!” I was taken aback by the booger's impudence, but I didn't want to continue the series of winning jokes. The main thing was that it wasn't clear that he was standing up for him so much, he was a freak!

An Australian artist drew a comic about harassment in kindergarten, and it turned out that not only victims suffer, but also the offenders themselves. However, the actress also showed how to teach children how to treat each other properly. The Internet believes that the most mature character was a three-year-old girl.

The situation of mobbing/bullying in a children's camp is different from that of bullying at school or in a sports team. Counselors sometimes do not have the opportunity to contact parents and resolve issues together. They must act very quickly to prevent mobbing from developing in the squad.

The concept of mobbing was introduced in 1963 by Austrian zoopsychologist Konrad Lorenz. He called mobbing the phenomenon of several small animals attacking a larger enemy. The term became famous after the publication in 1972 of a work by Swedish physician P. Hyneman, who compared children's violent behavior towards their peers with aggressive animal behavior and called it mobbing. In its modern sense, the term was first used by the Swedish researcher of work psychology H. Leyman, who studied the peculiarities of people's behavior in a team in the early 80s of the 20th century.

Daria Nevskaya, the creator of mobbingu.net, gave an interview to Novaya Gazeta. Baltic States” in Riga, by writer Maria Boteva. We publish the full article.