When they do not have their way, adults insult a child by teasing it or frightening it with severe punishments or repercussions. If you don t say your prayers, God will make you blind. A child who grows up hearing this begins to hate the concept of goodness and godliness when it becomes an adult. Because all he can associate with the word God is the picture of a monster that will physically harm him if disobeyed. Many parents bully in the name of God and religion.
Some teachers are, unfortunately, bully in one way or other.
Refusing to believe a child is a kind of bullying. As soon as the rickshaw left she confided to her mother that all she wanted to do was spend a day alone with her, when everyone else in the house was away. Caught in a dilemma, the mother decided to play along. Once the rest of the family members had left, the child burst out crying. When the mother prodded gently, the child confided that she deliberately wanted to miss school that day because there was a math test that she knew she was going to fail and that her teacher would never believe she had prepared for the test.