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Different ages

Teasing and bullying is something of all ages. However, at every age stage, there is only a difference in how teasing and bullying are expressed. In this blog you can read more about how that teasing and bullying looks like at the different ages.

The 2 to 4 year olds

At this age, there is actually no question of bullying yet. Kids are still too young to really bully consciously. Bullying is all about the fact that children choose the same victim over and over again and again to bully. In this age, you can actually speak more of small arguments. Although children at this age can sometimes be quite bothering each other. At this age, it is very common for toys to be taken away from each other or for the children to pull each other's hair. In this age stage, fighting for toys is definitely part of it. It is precisely because of this that they learn how to deal with other children. For example, they learn the boundaries of another person.
At this age stage, children find it difficult to get around in the feelings of another person. In general, children at this age are very strongly focused on themselves. As regards toys, this generally means that everything they like that they want this too. It doesn't matter that another child likes this just as much and wants to play with it as well.
The so-called toddler rules have also been drawn up for this:
• I like it > mine.
• I must have it > mine.
• I'll take it off > from me.
• I had the first > mine.
• Looks like mine > mine.
• I saw it first > from me.
• You let go > from me.
• It's mine anyway.
• Oh, is the piece? > yours.
The moment children turn three years old, they start to get a little bit of how to make contact with other children. Then you're really going to notice that kids ask more about other children. You see that children are going to push or take away less to get what they want to have. Children are therefore increasingly learning from solutions that they find themselves. It is therefore also advisable to let children go for a while from this age when they are having a fight.

The 4 to 8 year old

When children are between four and eight years old, they gain a lot of experience. At this age stage, children tend to get together a lot, whether they want to or not. This makes them look at each other a lot, so they learn from. In this way, they learn from and with each other how to interact with others.
At this age stage, children are already well able to distribute roles during game moments. That's also why they're increasingly tuning their game to those they're playing with at the time. You will notice very well that children need each other to learn from each other and they also know very well who they can learn from.
Children in this age phase usually show very well who they really like and who doesn't. You'll soon see who the popular kids are and who the less popular kids are. However, targeted bullying is not so common at this age stage. This is because the social roles in the group are not fully fixed yet. Especially during this age phase, there can still be many shifts when it comes to the social roles in the group.

The 8 to 16 year old

Between the ages of 8 and 16, most young people spend most of their time in school. They spend other time at sports clubs, in entertainment venues or on the street with friends among themselves. Generally, most young people at this age are in the puberty phase. A phase in which all kinds of changes take place physically, such as growth spurt, sexual maturation and further brain development. During this phase, the young person will have to deal with the different challenges of life. This way, young people can suffer a lot of stress during this phase. In addition to stress, the young person will form his identity, this is done on three levels; biological, sociological and psychological. In the biological field, you can say that young people become aware of their sexual identity and their bodies. In the sociological field, young people learn to deal with the choices they will have to make regarding school or work. In the psychological field, young people will start to think about who they actually are.
At this age stage, young people are more sensitive to the opinions of others, especially those of their peers. Young people generally tend to hang out with each other in groups at this stage, both in school and leisure time. These groups are also known as “peer groups”. Between the ages of 12 to 13, the young people mainly live in peer groups of their own sex, because of the different interests, and from 15/16 years old they also live up in mixed peer groups.

Additional threats for the 12 to 16 year old

Between the ages of 12 and 16, especially young people between the ages of 12 and 16 can face threats aimed at well-being. This includes, among other things:
• Overweight; Because at the latest during this period is perceived as important, overweight can cause additional psychological consequences. There may be such a fear of being overweight that an eating disorder can be developed such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia. Anorexia refuses food and bulimia has binge eating followed by vomiting, excessive exercise or use of laxatives to get rid of ingested food again.
• Drug use; Young people use drugs because of the pleasurable experiences it brings and to escape the crowds they have and others use it to experiment.
• Alcohol abuse; Alcohol is consumed because it is “adult”, for others (especially male athletes) it is intended to maintain a 'macho' image and still others drink for the same reason they use drugs.
• Tobacco; Smoking is seen by young people as a ritual of passage to adulthood, in addition, young people are more likely to smoke when exposed to smoking role models such as parents, movie stars or other peers.
• Sexually transmitted diseases (AIDS, chlamydia and genital herpes).
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