Bullying is a persistent, deliberate attempt to hurt or humiliate someone. There are different types of bullying but they have 3 things in common:

• They involve deliberately hurtful behaviour
• They are repeated over time
• They involve an unfair balance of power which makes it hard for those being bullied to defend themselves

3 main types of bullying are:

• Physical: Hitting, kicking, taking belongings
• Verbal: Name calling, racist comments or jokes, threatening remarks
• Indirect: Spreading stories about someone or ignoring them

Bullying can be face to face or by phone, texting, email, letters/notes or in internet chat rooms.