Is Bullying Easily Dismissed Among Boys?

Many reported cases of bullying among young children are among girls as they are often thought to take more emotional and psychological abuse from their fellow students.  Although there are reported cases of bullying among boys they are often wrote off as boys just being boys and treated as not as serious as the girl’s problems. 

Rosalind Wiseman is the author of “Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World”, a book about the social habits of young boys and how they bully and deal with bullying.  She believes that there is a difference between boys being boys and cruel, aggressive bullying.  Often time’s school administration and parents write off bullying assuming that boys will mature out of this behavior but Wiseman says that this only shows the bullies that even if they get caught there will be no consequences, so they increase the bullying.  According to a 2013 study by the Hazelden Foundation young boys and girls get bullied at the same rate, and it increases among boys as they get older. 

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