Ten Practical Ways to Put an End to Cyberbullying
Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Center
220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960
Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com
As parents, perhaps it is the hardest task out there to protect your child from something as malicious as cyberbullying. This is so, partly because your child may be reluctant to open up to you if he/she is the victim of any kind of bullying. With cyberbullying, all this is even more difficult because it doesn’t happen in sites where adult intervention is possible. Given these facts, what are some real, practical ways to protect your child from cyberbullying?
10 Practical Tips to Fight Cyberbullying
- Familiarizing yourself with technology and keeping an eye on your child’s cyber profiles is a good way to ensure if they are involved in cyberbullying, as victims or perpetrators.
- In your home, placing the computer at a publicly visible spot helps to spot instances of cyberbullying. With older children, teenagers, or kids who browse social media from personal devices, it is desirable to ask if you could view their social profiles.
- By talking to kids, spending quality time with them, and explaining to them the positives and negatives of internet use, you can earn their trust. It will also help you to note any changes in their mood or behavior.
- Try to casually mingle with your child’s peers and classmates in possible contexts, so that you know whom your child spends time with and what they have to tell about bullying/cyberbullying among their classmates.
- Familiarize your children with what counts as cyberbullying and how cyberbullying may affect those who involve in it as bullies, victims and viewers. Grasping the seriousness of the issue may make them disclose to you instances of cyberbullying that they have encountered, at least as witnesses.
- If you are convinced that your child is a victim of cyberbullying, never jump to conclusions regarding damaging material, or assume that your child is to blame in some way. Try to talk to them regarding the nature and duration of bullying. Seek professional help from a counselor if needed.
- Ask him/her to resist from responding online. Instead, document posts so that they can be used to prove your child’s claim and help him/her in legal/psychological circumstances.
- Do not behave in ways that may complicate the issue, such as asking your child to ignore bullying, trivializing it, forbidding kids from using social media, taking out your emotions on them, or provoking them to retort. Even if you discover that your child is a bully, the best route to take is to talk to him/her and get a counsellor’s help.
- As cyberbullying might also be caused by or trigger real-life bullying, talk to your child’s school authorities to make sure that bullying does not happen in school. If your child’s involvement with cyberbullying sounds damaging or unhealthy, do not hesitate to seek legal and psychological help.
- Finally, teaching your child self-defense is the most effective and thorough solution to help him/her. A good self-defense technique like martial arts can make children confident, assertive, brave, and respectful of others. In professional martial art schools like Bruce McCorry’s Academy, you could even opt for programs like afterschool martial arts, thus easily fitting in self-defense to your child’s schedule.
At the beginning of new school year, say no to bullying
through self-defense and awareness.
Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Center
220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960
Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com
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