Dealing with cyberbullying, helping our children.

Nowadays millions of young students are victims of bullying. It is known that there are many
attempts to stop bullying attacks. In spite of the fact that there are a great number of campaigns
to stop it, it still is a huge problem inside schools. Worse still, with the arrival of digital devices like
mobile phone, computers and the Internet bullying is present outside schools. As a result of
cyberbullying many children may feel harassed even when they are at their homes.

One way to deal with the situation is to monitor children´s social media activity. Although it could
be a little invasive, many times taking the control over social networks may prevent children from
suffering cyberbullying. The effect would be to be aware of possible damaging and toxic
relationships that can be really harmful for our kids.

Another way to deal with this problem is to maintain daily talking conversations with the person
who is affected by cyberbullying. In this way, it is possible to know about children´s lives. Talking
just about daily common things may be a key factor in order to identify how bulled people feel.
The outcome of doing this might be to contribute to generating mutual confidence. Then you can
advise the affected children as regard as different bullying situations.

One final suggestion which would help, would be to save the evidence of the cyberbullying. In
order to report incidents, it is highly important to keep abusive text messages or a screenshot of a
webpage and then report to police. Consequently, the stalker would receive a great demand
which might deter him/her from doing bullying. Thus this could be the end of his/her life as a
bully.

To sum up, there are several measures which could be taken to stop cyber-bullying. It depends on
our relation with our children and the confidence we can generate. What is more, in extreme
cases, it is crucial to collect evidence in order to report the bully.