Problem: Your child comes home from school and tells you a classmate would not play with her. For many parents we hear this story and do not think much about it, other than this is just kids being kids. However, it is important not to brush this behavior off because there is a chance your child is experiencing relational bullying (also known as social bullying). Before diving into what relational bullying is, let's review what is considered bullying behavior. According to StopBullying dot gov, "bullying is unwanted aggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated or has the potential to be repeated, over time." The two points to focus on in this definition are "imbalance of power" and "repetition". An imbalance of power in a bullying situation can mean actual physical power such as physically bigger, stronger or a group of students doing the behavior. It can also be a perceived power such as popularity or access to embarrassing information. The second point is repetition. This one is a little harder to navigate, but bullying behavior usually happens more than once or has the potential to occur more than once. Since this is not always clear or we do not want to wait to see if it is going to occur again, the final thing we can look at is the intent of the behavior. Need Assignment Help?