The purpose of this research project is to find information and create a booklet for children and their parents that cover some issues that they may be facing. The topics that the booklet cover are: bullying, food insecurities, homelessness, depression and anxiety. The goal is to provide information that will help children and families that might be facing one or more of these issues overcome the issues and give them information to resources that can help.
This project started because I wanted to create something that could be useful to children and their families, so I started brainstorming on how or what could do that, then I came up with the idea of this booklet. Choosing the topics was harder than I thought, the more I thought about it
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The purpose of the bullying section is useful for children because it gives them information and tips on how to talk to people about the situation that they are in and resources that they can access that can help them overcome being bullied. The bullying section for parents is to give them an insight to the signs and symptoms to look for if they think that their child could possibly be a victim of bullying, or that their child could be a bully. Bullying is defined as an unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. I started my research on bullying by looking up things that can cause a child to be bullied Stopbullying.gov states that the characteristics that cause may cause a child to be bullied are children who are perceived different from their peers from such things as weight either over or under weight, wearing glasses, or not being able to afford things that other children consider to be “cool”, children who are seen as unable to defend themselves or weak, children who are depressed, anxious, or have low self-esteem can also be targets for bullying, children that are less popular or have few friends can be targets for bullying, children that do not get along well with others, seen as annoying