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Cyber Bullying Tips For Parents

The below tips are designed to help today's parents get more involved in their children's "CYBER" life. Know who, what, where and when your children are on the computer and be assertive in understanding the culture of the internet.



  • Learn. Unannounced, sit down with your children and say, "Teach me something." Gauge their reaction.
  • Go through your computer's web history every other day. Establish consequences for your children if they clear the history so that you can't see what they have been searching.
  • Read their text messages/e-mails. You will likely receive resistance from this, but Driscoll says that this is where you need to be less of a buddy and more of a parent.
  • Remind your kids about stranger danger; they don't need to accept every friend request they get on their social networking sites.
  • Know any and all of your kids' usernames and passwords.
  • Follow your kids' posts (Facebook) /tweets (Twitter).
  • Keep the computer in a common area. If there's a word document on the screen everytime you pass by, but the paragraph never gets any longer, they are doing something else on the computer they don't want you to see.
  • Set the filter for web results to "Strict" on your computer.
  • Limit time on the Internet. Driscoll reminded the audience that there's a little something called "outside" that we should check out.
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