Teasing:
A. Is intended to get both parties to laugh.
B. Isn’t intended to hurt the other person.
C. Pokes fun in a light-hearted, clever, and benign way.
D. Allows the teaser and the person tease to swap roles with ease.
E. Is discontinued when person teased becomes upset or objects to the teasing.
Taunting:
A. Includes laughter directed at the target, not with the target.
B. Is intended to harm.
C. Involves humiliating, cruel, demeaning, or bigoted comments thinly disguised as jokes.
D. Is based on an imbalance of power and is one-sided: the bully taunts, the bullied kid is taunted.
E. Continues especially when targeted kid becomes distressed or objects to the taunt.