Contents:
- Medical Video: The Effects of Bullying: What Parents Need to Know
- How do parents have to behave when there is cyber bullying in children?
- 1. Don't respond to the offender
- 2. Rebuild your child's confidence
- 3. Collect evidence, then report it
- What should parents do so that cyber bullying in children does not occur?
Medical Video: The Effects of Bullying: What Parents Need to Know
Today almost everyone has social media. From adults, teenagers, even though children are already adept at using it. Does your child include active social media users? If so, you should continue to pay attention and monitor your child in using his social media account. Because, at this time many are abusing social media. Not infrequently children and adolescents become the target of cyber bullying. Yes, cyber bullying can be experienced by your child. As a parent, surely you are very anxious and do not accept if your child experiences this. However, there are some wise ways to overcome and respond to cyber bullying in children.
How do parents have to behave when there is cyber bullying in children?
Most children and adolescents who experience cyber bullying do not fully understand what is happening. Maybe when they feel oppressed, they will feel scared or even angry. So, it takes your role as a parent to accompany him. This is what parents must do when cyber bullying in children occurs.
1. Don't respond to the offender
Give your child the understanding that the main thing to do when violence on social media happens to him is not to reply or respond to the perpetrator. Notify that all negative comments or insults directed at him should be ignored.
Even though it is very difficult to refrain from resisting, this will prevent the situation from getting worse. Usually people who do cyber bullying tend to be more happy if the 'bait' is accepted by the victim.
2. Rebuild your child's confidence
It's natural for your child and teenager to be very scared, anxious, angry, and sad at the same time. Of course as a parent, your role to calm him and restore his confidence again is very important.
Explain that this can happen to anyone, not only to him. There are many irresponsible people who use social media to oppress others. If indeed necessary, you can invite your child to a psychologist to monitor his mental condition.
It is important not to corner or blame the child, for example by saying, "What do you do, to the extent that hebullyyou like this? " Whatever the reason, cyber bullying in children cannot be justified.
3. Collect evidence, then report it
After successfully holding back, ask your child what forms of social media violence he gets. Whether it's inappropriate comments, personal photos, etc. Collect all of these to be used as evidence.
Many children actually erase all the evidence because they feel scared. So calm down and give an explanation that this can be used as evidence. If indeed you already have sufficient evidence, then you should report it to the school or any party that is authorized in your situation, so that the perpetrator will not commit violence on other children.
What should parents do so that cyber bullying in children does not occur?
The most important thing is to monitor all your little activities on social media. Know what social media accounts he has to his friends in the media. Tell him if you should not be friends with people he is not familiar with. It's also important to know everything posting which he uploaded in his personal account.
You also need to be sensitive to your teenagers, know the signs when your child experiences cyber bullying, so you can prevent other bad things from happening.
