They’re just being kids: recognizing and preventing bullying.

The article presents a study which describes ways to recognize and to prevent bullying among American schoolchildren. It explores several cases of direct and indirect bullying and aggressive behaviors of students in different forms like physical, emotional, cyber, and sexting that are compounded in the Internet, YouTube, and cell phones. It cites the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on bullying-related suicide cases in young people. It also indicates that children with special needs are easy targets of bullying.

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