English 1010 11/28/2018 The impact of bullying on children Bullying is an international problem that brought countless negative effects on children.60% of middle school students say that they have been bullied, while 16% of staff believes that students are bullied; 160,000 students stay home from school every day due to bullying. From these data, we can clearly see that bullying is very prevalent in school and causes a great damage to children that over a hundred thousand children stop going to school because of it. The first important thing we need to figure out is what is bullying. “Bullying is defined as intentional actions repeated over time that harm, intimidate, or humiliate another person” (Olweus, 1993). More generally, bullying is aggressive and unwanted behavior among children in school that cover a perceived or real huge power imbalance. The behavior repeats or plausible repeats again and again over time. It assumes that both of children who bully others or who have been bullied have some serious psychology problem. First of all, there is a very interesting research experiment of Phillip T. Slee and Grace Skrzypiec on analyzing children's drawing to gain a better understanding of the original and basic impact of bullying. In Study One, children’s drawings were examined using indicators of size, detail and line heaviness in terms of gender and developmental trends. The analysis showed no main differences for gender, however, there were clear developmental aspects to children’s depictions of school bullying. In Study Two, children’s self-reported victimization was associated with the degree of detail and the relative distance between the protagonists represented in the drawings. The studies suggest that drawings could be used to counsel young people and help remediate the effects of bullying.(No more bullying, Slee and Skrzypiec ) Above the conclusion of the experiment, we can see that is some difference between the drawings between children who have never been bullied and who have been bullied. The result of study one, it shows that there is almost no clear relation between sex on the size of the drawing, detail and the heaviness of lines for children’s spontaneous drawings of school bullying. It means whatever the sex of the child is, bullying can make an identical impact on them. The purpose of study two was to examine the features including, size of the drawing, detail, line heaviness, size of the bully, the distance between the bully and victim and the size of the victim in children’s drawings as indicators of emotional distress amongst children who report being bullied. ( No more bullying, Slee and Skrzypiec, chapter purpose: study two ) In study two, we can see a few drawings from kids who have been bullied. One of the drawings shows two little blonde girls, one laughs and says to another one: " Har har, you are a fat pig." and another one cries and responses:" That's th.