Health & Fitness
Teach Your Kids the Difference Between Funny and Cruel
Kids must understand the impact of cyber-bullying.
Society must dispel the myth that bullying is simply a harmless right of passage
or an inevitable part of growing up. There have been suicides in which youngsters
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killed themselves after being bullied in school or on the internet.
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The Internet and Facebook are the conveyance of harmful teasing,threats, gossip
and other degrading attacks.
When bullying takes place in the cyber-world it's like public humiliation; photos,
cruel comments, taunts and threats travel in an instant and can be seen by
thousands. It is one thing to deal with the threat of physical attack, but quite
another to endure indignity, humiliation and shame. In some cases victims
believed that suicide was the only refuge or escape from the pain of
humiliation and shame. Parents need to talk to their kids about the impact of
cyber-bullying. Merely telling them to stay off Facebook or their cell phones won't
work. Teaching your child empathy and knowing the difference between funny and
cruel is a good start.