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Young children practice interpersonal and social skills.

They mimic everything they see.

They also come up with impolite ways to talk and act.

Discrimination, harassment, bullying, and physical or mental violence in young children are generally not intentional, in the beginning.

Often, nasty/ugly/bad or submissive habits start unnoticed, with small moments or small drops. Often, these acts are connected to someone’s sexuality or gender.

It can be a nonverbal, verbal, or body-hurting activity that violates another person’s mental or physical integrity.

Droplet intervention is useful in a preventive manner: when someone is occasionally left out, laughed at or someone’s appearance or trait is commented on in an unkind way.

Intervention is needed even before the bad behaviour becomes repetitive and intentional or bullying; before small drops grow into a big stream of bullying or violence.

Droplet intervention means stopping the situation and reflecting on it without accusing or labelling anyone. It is a model to provide socioemotional skills to young children in difficult, multidimensional social situations.