One in 4 teenage girls, and one in six teenage boys, are vicitms of bullying, most of which is doen in cyberspace (computers and mobiles). As a parent, do you think you are doing enough to protect your youngsters?
Myspace, bebo and lookitsme.com are not only fertile grounds for paedophiles, they are by their own admission relying on moderators to intercept bullying comments.
Teenage suicides are at their highest when cyber bullying is involved.
Again I ask, do you think you are doing enough to protect our youngsters?
www.bullying.com is recommended.
2007-09-23 23:18:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I have to say andy, respect to my other half on this, I don't know about mum, but he takes anything with his son (who is 12) very seriously indeed, he will go to the school and not leave until things are dealt with and as for websites, it's either "not on my watch" or "I'm sitting with you while you are on them."
Actually I just got a new laptop yesterday (another hand me down from mum!) and I have loaded norton anti virus including parental controls on to it and intend to set the kids up with their own access barring certain websites.
He has also been known to read his son's texts!
If only all parents took these things so seriously!
In terms of YA, I have banned his son from it - after all, with the way I have been treated on here there is NO WAY! I would let his son use it!!!!!!!
2007-09-23 23:37:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am a teenager, and I have both been the victim (not so much in my teen years, but for several years as a younger child, and it's kinda fxcked me up.) and the perpetrator (I'll admit it) of bullying.
As a parent, when your child is a teenager, I'm afraid there is not really anything you can do. All you can do is love your child, and help them to grow up strong enough and confident enough and smart enough to deal with things like this. Give them all your support, but don't pry into their private lives.
Teens can also benefit from just being smart online. Only my friends have my email adress, and only freinds can acess my livejournal and my myspace, only people I know are on my MSN list, only my friends have my phone number. If people are just a little more careful with their private details, and don't act stupid online, then they will be fine. I have personally never been a victim of cyber bullying, because I am smart enough not to interact with bullies.
In the playground or schoolyard, it is different. ALL bullying toward me ended when I stood up and beat the **** out of a bully who was harrasing me. I made him cry and bleed. No one ever ever messed with me again. (and Yes, violence WAS the answer, and is always the answer in cases like that). Online, you can't exactly stand up for yourself, so the very best thing to do is excersise caution, ignore people you don't know, and just be careful.
It's that simple. If your kids are smart, they will not get into a cyber-bullying mess in the first place.
I hope my rambling has been helpful.
2007-09-23 23:29:33 · answer #2 · answered by myleslr 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bullying is something I am extremely sensitive to as I was bullied badly as a kid and teen. The biggest problem with bullys is the adults that should be punishing them. Being active with the school and rec sports in my town I see just how many parents are bullies also and understand where the kids get it from. As far as at school...they want to work it out. Have the bully and victim talk it out and it will all be fine yet it never is. Here is an example...last week a 13 year old was taken into police custody at my 2 older kids school. This kid last year was suspended 7 or 8 times give or take for beating up other kids. 1 time for bringing alcohol to school. School just started a month ago and the boy is already suspended from school for 12 weeks because he told a girl he was going to rape her. I'm sure he thought it was a joke and did it just to scare her but none the less he said it. He is a bully that has been coddled. He through my son into a locker on the first day of school last year just because he is bigger then anyone else. The vice- principal brought them both into his office and they talked it out. My son had nothing to talk out. He was just walking to class. It's ridiculous and bullies should be held accountable and punished. The parents life should be made difficult like having to find child care because of suspensions or having to leave work early to pick their child up from detention so they parents will wake up and make their kids stop bullying. While talking to my youngest sons preschool teacher she said it starts as young as preschool.
As far as the cyber bullying. I see it like crazy on myspace. I have a myspace and there is about 30 jr. high kids on my friends list. I know all these kids and why would I have them there? To keep an eye on what is going on. It absolutely amazes me what is being said on these things because it clearly shows which parents are paying attention and which parents are not. Some of them are like soap operas. I see 7th graders who talk about having sex and getting into fights with others. More so with the girls then the boys. I have stepped in many times and said something to these kids. 1 girl in particular..comes to me alot now with problems she has because her parents just don't care and are to busy she says. Its nuts!! Ok I am done with my rant. Thanks for posting this question. It is a good one. For anyone that reads this..sometimes there are kids out there that just need someone to talk to. Alot of built of frustrations and their parents just don't care. Maybe one of your teens friends just needs someone to talk to.
2007-09-23 23:39:37 · answer #3 · answered by Ladybugs77 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well andy i had to take my ten year old son off this site, he loved the q and a on wwf....but even though i has blocked His email he was still getting some from men asking him for sex, they did not know old he was and must have judged his answers, i do try watch what they do on the computer but they know as my 15 year old daughter does , how to word things that have no meaning to me, but the only way to protect them fully is to lock them in their bedroom after school till they are adults... not possible , but they also have to learn that it can be a big bad world out there,
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2016-10-05 06:39:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My little one is too little for the net & so i don't have any input on this view. But what you say sounds horribly real & terribly scary.
A star for your concern for the youngsters.
Honestly, if more people aired such concern, am sure this world would be a safer place.
2007-09-23 23:25:43 · answer #6 · answered by Faith 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
mobiles have advantages but it also works the other way
2007-09-23 23:25:04 · answer #7 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋