Many parents know what it is to have a child with ADHD but they are faced with the misunderstanding of society. To this day, there is still too much ignorance about this disorder and it causes children to be stigmatized by saying that they are problematic children or with a lack of limits. Nothing is further from reality.
Children with ADHD are impulsive because their nature makes them that way. It is necessary to work with these children on routines and limits so that little by little they learn to control their impulsiveness and understand their emotions. But A child with ADHD in no case has to be a bad child by nature, far from it.
Nor are they different from the rest, they are simply children who have their own idiosyncrasies and who have to understand their personal characteristics to be able to raise and educate them accordingly.
Bullying in schools
Bullying continues to be a strong scourge found in schools and for this reason, each and every one of those responsible in an educational center must do their part to end this. It does not matter if children have ADHD or not, you just have to work on emotional education as a compulsory subject to try to alleviate this problem that affects so many boys and girls in our society.
Bullying or bullying is a problem that is suffered in schools and that also directly affects the families of the victims. But the families of the bullies must also play an important role in all of this. Family members, professionals, witnesses to bullying, all take part to put an end to this.
It is necessary to become aware so that bullying can be permanently eradicated from all centers. Children should feel safe in educational centers because it is the place where they spend the most time. If there is bullying, the learning will not be correct, the children will feel bad emotionally and therefore, the problem can be severely aggravated.
Bullying and ADHD
There is research that makes it clear that children with ADHD are almost 10 times more likely to attract the attention of bullies for their personal characteristics. Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are unlikely to go unnoticed in the school setting.
Children with ADHD can quickly earn the label of 'different', 'difficult' ... and this makes them a quick 'target' for bullies. ADHD can inhibit a child's understanding of social cues, which can have a negative impact on everyday conversations and social interactions, something other children quickly pick up on. Exclusion from social circles only leads to intense feelings of isolation and depression. When a child with ADHD feels excluded from the peer group, it can negatively affect him emotionally and behaviorally.
Bullying in a school can have a serious impact on the academic performance of a child with ADHD. There are millions of children around the world who suffer bullying at school, many of them do not tell about it out of fear, others out of shame and others because of learned helplessness ... they think that it is not worth doing or saying anything, because the situation will not change. They feel helpless and helpless. Bullying often occurs to insecure and passive children who show physical weakness and poor social skills.
Aggressor or attacked?
A child with low self-esteem or 'different' behaviors may be more easily bullied by bullies. Although they tend to avoid comforting, they may find themselves in a fight against bullying without knowing how they got to that point. When a child with ADHD is bullied, they can overreact emotionally, something that 'magnifies' the bullies and causes bullying to continue to grow. Unfortunately, crying or anger as an impulsive response to provocation will only make the problem worse in every way. Children with more sensitive ADHD can be easy targets for bullies if they don't work in time to fix it.
There is also other research that finds that children with ADHD are almost 4 times more likely to bully other children who do not have ADHD. This can also be due to the same reasons why they can become victims: low self-esteem and victimization and even untreated feelings of depression.
Bullying or harassment is destructive
Bullying can be linked to long-lasting emotional, mental, and physical health problems for both the bullied and the bully. If your child is bullied at school, they are likely to experience high levels of insecurity, anxiety, depression, loneliness, poor sleeping and eating habits, and even decreased academic performance, in addition to ADHD symptoms.
If your child with ADHD has become a bully at school, they are likely to be involved in fights or risky activities. It is necessary that you have a close watch on what happens at school, in order to work with your child on a good emotional education and assertiveness. In addition and of course, to work in parallel with his self-esteem and his insecurity ... that it probably causes him to have this type of negative behavior towards other children who have become his victims.
Both from families and from schools, it is necessary to have an active support group for victims of bullying, to learn correct strategies to redirect the behavior of the aggressors taking into account their emotional deficiencies. In any case, both victim and offender will need attention and correct work to improve the unstable situation at school that causes bullying or bullying.
All children deserve a quiet schooling, promoting a good relationship with their peers and this should be a priority for those responsible for the school, even more than learning the academic content. Because with an emotional imbalance, the academic content will not be learned either and the objective of the school will be blurred. It does not matter whether or not children have ADHD, or some other disorder or aspects that make them different, all of them are 'children' and should be educated equally: taking into account their idiosyncrasies.