Saturday, November 1, 2008

Cyberbullying

As the internet continues grow and evolve it is important that adults teach child that is not ok to bully people on-line.

www.cyberbullying.us/ defines cyber bullying as “"willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices." ...

Parents can teach their children not to bully other kids on the play ground because most of the time adults are there to supervise. When children get on-line there is rarely adult supervision. The effects of cyber bullying can be devastating.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/nov/18/cyberbullying_ends_girls_life/

The problem has gotten so bad that there is a national campaign to stop it.
http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/index2.html is a website dedicated to stopping cyber bullying. There, web browsers can find out what cyber bullying is, how it works, why people cyber bully, prevention against cyber bullying, how to take action, and what's the law?

This is a problem that parents need to address before their child touches a computer for the first time. Naive parents created the problem and it is time from everyone to fix it.

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