What Parents Can Do About Cyber Bullying
Parents can help stop cyber bullying. You can start by talking to kids about the issue and teaching them the rules below that will help prevent cyber bullying from happening to them or someone they know.
What Kids Need to Know:
Never give out personal information online, whether in instant message profiles, chat rooms, blogs, or personal websites.
Never tell anyone (except your parents) your password, even friends.
If someone sends a mean or threatening message, don’t respond. Save it or print it out and show it to an adult.
Never open emails from someone you don’t know or from someone you know is a bully.
Don’t put anything online that you wouldn’t want your classmates to see, even in email.
Don’t send messages when you’re angry. Before clicking “send,” ask yourself- how you would feel if you received the message?
Help kids who are bullied online by not joining in and showing bullying messages to an adult.
Always be as polite online as you are in person.
Since most cyber bullying takes place at home, it’s important that parents know about cyber bullying, and that they get involved in preventing it. Just like parents help their kids to avoid inappropriate websites, they can protect them from cyber bullying.
What Parents Can Do
Keep your home computer in a busy area of your house.
Set up email and chat accounts with your children. Make sure that you know their screen names and passwords and that they don’t include any personal information in their online profiles.
Regularly go over their instant messenger “buddy list” with them. Ask who each person is and how your children knows him or her.
Print a current flyer of Exploited Children and post it by your computer.
Discuss cyber bullying with your children and ask if they have ever experienced it or seen it happen to someone.
Tell your children that you won’t blame them if they are cyber bullied. Emphasize that you won’t take away their computer privileges – this is the main reason kids don’t tell adults when they are cyber bullied.
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24/7 Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week
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AFK Away from keyboard
AIM AOL Instant Messenger
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AM Antemeridian
AOL America Online
ASAP As soon as possible
ASL Age, sex, location
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BBL Be back later
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BFF Best friends forever
BFN Bye for now
BOT Back on topic
BRB Be right back
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CYE Check your e-mail
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DIY Do it yourself
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IIRC If I remember correctly
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MMO Masively Multiplayer Online
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N/A Not Available
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TBC To be continued
TBD To be determined
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TMI Too much information
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XOXO Hugs and kisses
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ZZZ Sleeping
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