Why Communication is the Most Important Skill
Dedication
This essay is for people who are getting bullied, people who want to stand up and for people who want to be able to communicate with other people. I noticed how many victims are having horrible things done to them and they can’t communicate or don’t want to communicate to somebody who can help you. Communication is the single most important skill somebody can know.
His shaken body hunching over because of the bullies’ punches, his pale head and drooping shoulders lowering fearfully and silenced by the bullies horrific never ending yells. An over confident bully endlessly taunts as he shoves his defenseless victims. This is a picture of today’s reality when students do not reach out for an adult's help. At schools or in their neighborhoods, friends and strangers are often deliberately being pushed around by an oppressor, but courageous kids with assertive communication skills empower themselves with confidence to stand up or tell an adult to successfully limit damaging outcomes of threats and to free kids from fear so they can speak up in way that brings about change. Why might parents not want kids to speak up? Despite the belief that a child's ability to speak up may lead to arguments with parents or it may give their kids a voice to use against innocent students, it can also be true that communication can improve a child's ability to defend themselves with a robust voice that empowers them to prevent persecution of abusive kids.
Learning communications, a worthy essential for self defense that inspires the fearful or intimidated to stop pressures from mean kids, will ignite children’s courage to give them a powerful voice and assertively speak up for a troubled friend who cannot speak up for themselves. Lacking the skill of communication, a very distressing disadvantage that encourages bullies to see other kids as an easy target, the defenseless are bullied and constantly threatened with negative rumors. Whether it is the talented, the one with no friends, the highly religious, a student with uncommon physical features, the creative or smart, racially different, the popular, the sexually orientated, and the ill or disabled, and heartless bullies will often, without reason, hide belongings or try to start a fight to trigger undesirable feelings of rejection, eliminating any victim’s defenses.
As a matter of fact, if children were educated to properly communicate when in trouble or facing danger, they could defend themselves, satisfying the needed steps towards silencing the persecutor and bringing out the pride of seeing oneself help someone in need. Since 20% of children reported being tormented and only 46% of the victims told an adult about the incident, communications would benefit to fulfill the valuable duty of reaching out for reinforcements, broadening a child’s ability to make healthy relationships with others around the world. Meanwhile, 19% of the children bullied were made fun of, 17% were affected by rumors, 9% were shoved or tripped, 6% were threatened by bullies, 5% were excluded at the school, and 41% expect the torture to happen again, a devastating reality that children without a voice can not protect themselves exposing themselves with the troubling conflict of oppression.
With the power of communication to build ultimate confidence when seeking out ways to sharpen their words, posture, and voice in kids can prevent bullying by telling the bully in a confident tone to stop. Indeed a truly lifesaving choice for freeing kids to acquire courage that they can prevent a bully hurting a child, some studies show that in the majority of these cases, 57% of the time someone tells the bully to stop, the bullying stopped within ten seconds. With a bystanders help, even kids can stand up in that moment as strong communicators to explain to the bullies that the behavior is unacceptable and should change, unlocking the valuable possibility of discouraging future bullies by communicating to them that they are not doing the right thing. For example, when alone, a child who can communicate with boldness might tell the bully that their behavior is embarrassing or interrupt the bullying with a straight face, without showing the emotions of fear, anger, frustration. An exceptionally respectable benefit that empowers the speaker to stand up even though they are afraid, it is proven that this can discourage the bully and de-escalate the situation.
Although some people might conclude that with the ability to communicate, kids might tattle tail and be over dramatic, others would argue that children with the skill of communication can suppress negative situations by communicating a clear message towards the oppressor to stop or towards adults to gain their support. While there is also some truth that communication lessons are expensive as extracurricular activities, the reality remains that the lessons are worth the price tag because of the substantial results of lowering your child's vulnerability of being a target. But there are other easy and money-saving ways to learn to communicate. It is as easy as talking to your friends, eating lunch with other students, and making new friends. So, communication is a lifesaving skill that must be mastered in cost efficient ways to prevent bullies in the future and ensure that your child or anyone else’s will not be the victim.
About the Author
Kameron Pham
Grade 6
Kameron Pham is in the sixth grade. He believes that communication is one of the most important skills to know. Kameron is the author of numerous other narratives and persuasive essays. Growing up, he likes to swim and read, and often spends his time talking to people. Every week, Kameron wants to improve in writing and all subjects. When he grows up, Kameron would like to be a doctor or a lawyer.
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