One way kids can prevent bullying is to have private accounts on social media. Private accounts limit the people who can follow you. You get the control of who follows you. This helps because if you know someone who has a reputation of bullying or being mean, you get to decide if she follows you. 42% of people have a private account on social media. Most of the bullying that happens on social media. That is called cyberbullying. Statistics show that 80% of teens have been cyberbullied.

Another thing kids can do to prevent bullying is to speak up. If you are getting bullied it is best to speak up because there could be so many people who have gotten bullied by on person, and you are brave enough to speak up. Only 1/10 people who have gotten bullied have told someone about it. Some people choose to not tell people because they are embarrassed they think that that can get through it by themselves.

One last way kids can help prevent bullying is to stand up for yourselves and others. Standing up to a bully will make the bully see that other people have voices too. Jamie Artman was bullied in middle school for no reason at all. She was picked out of a crowd by a group of boys because she was wearing a necklace with a star pendant. They called her a witch and wouldn’t stop. She finally stood up by saying, “ if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” There is a good way and a bad way to stick up for yourself. One bad way to do this is to be mean about it. One good way to do this is to tell the bully that this is not ok.

Even though bullying is a big problem throughout the world, there are things that parents, schools, and kids can do to prevent it from happening. What will you do to help prevent it?