Bullying is just NOT hitting or beating up the kids. Bullying could be making obnoxious fun of a child's height, weight, skin complexion, calling silly names (name-calling), laughing on characteristics of a child for being a slow runner, scoring less in Math/Science or English, not being good at drawing and many more reasons which you would never get to know, till you talk, talk and talk to a kid!
At some schools, children are asked to adjust, or sort it on their own. No efforts are made to realize what the children are going through. Sometimes, even parents do not think their child might be the target of bullying. As I ( Chetna Mherotra) started my stint with a school as a “Drama For Learning” trainer, I realised that some children have to deal with the “bully syndrome” everyday. During our session of “Drama” and “Image Thought Tracking”, the kids opened up their hearts & emotions and shared some painful, some heart-breaking and some extremely painful incidents of bullying. In the hindsight, bullying might not sound like a big incident but when we take a glance at long term insights, it affects their minds while growing up which may result in getting stuck with the permanent sense of being inferior. This led to a movement with my like-minded peers joining in this cause. I request you to kindly join hands with us and cooperate & contribute to this cause. Our nation needs happy and emotionally literate children. Let us come together and help them nurture into “Joyful” souls and contribute towards nation building.
