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| Topic Started: Dec 18 2009, 06:09 AM (344 Views) | |
| mathcorechick | Dec 18 2009, 06:09 AM Post #1 |
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Hey parenting board i have a general question for you which requires your expertise as parents. have you had problems with your kids and facebook bullying? was the other parent complicit in helping the child get the account, esp. if the child is under 13? did your child tell someone at school and if so, what was the school's reaction? If this is too far out of the realm of this section i apologize and will repost in the cafe'. thanks, mathy |
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| happygirl | Dec 21 2009, 03:08 AM Post #2 |
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I have not had problems with facebook although daughter, at the age of 12, got a Myspace account that I found out about. She lied and said that she was 17 to get on. I immediately had it removed and then she was seriously grounded. I teach ten year olds and we haven't had a problem yet but when I was out there on myspace, I was shocked at the numbers of kids, some from my own grade and school that were on it. absolutely shocked because myspace is so sexualized and absolutely horrible for kids. I will allow daughter to have a facebook later but not now. As for the cyber bullying, it is becoming a larger and larger issue. It is also tricky for schools because the bullying occurs off campus, therefore an issue for parents and police. However, at our school, if we are informed of bullying issues, we certainly step in to make sure that all the kids are safe and distanced from each other. We are limited in what we can do since it occured off campus but certainly if it started at school or is carried back to school, we have a responsibility to act on it as a threat. Just one more word about bullying of any kind, the hugest problem that we have with bullying is that often the threats go back and forth. It is critical that the bullied child be educated about how to react so that he or she does not end up being blamed. Often, when the bullying party is called on the carpet, he or she recites a litany of things that victim has said to them. Then the outraged parents get involved, expecting retribution for their injured darling, too. It makes a clear cut case of bullying very difficult to treat. It is a nightmare to sort out who said what, although with cyberbullying at least there is a written record that would help establish what the truth is. It is critical for those being bullied to understand that they need to not react, thus ensuring that they are not blamed, and to get to an adult who will help them. It is so difficult because they want to react, want to fight back and sometimes it works against them. We do have a counselor come in and work with the kids in the classroom about what bullying is, how to stand up to it, deflect it and ignore it (I don't mean to keep being bullied silently, but to get away from it and get some help). We have been able to clean up a lot of it with this intervention. HG |
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| mathcorechick | Dec 21 2009, 03:24 PM Post #3 |
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thanks hg! |
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