1. Cyberbullying: Strategies to Take Back
Your Power
Strategies against cyberbullying for parents and children
About Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying is being cruel to others by sending or posting harmful material or engaging
in other forms of social aggression using the Internet or other digital technologies.
Cyberbullying can take different forms:
Flaming Online fights using electronic messages with angry and vulgar language.
Harassment Repeatedly sending nasty, mean, and insulting messages.
Denigration “Dissing” someone online. Sending or posting gossip or rumors about a
person to damage his or her reputation or friendships.
Impersonation Pretending to be someone else and sending or posting material to get that
person in trouble or danger or to damage that person’s reputation or friendships.
Outing Sharing someone’s secrets or embarrassing information or images online.
Trickery Talking someone into revealing secrets or embarrassing information, then
sharing it online.
Exclusion Intentionally and cruelly excluding someone from an online group.
Cyberstalking Repeated, intense harassment and denigration that includes threats or
creates significant fear.

2. Cyberbullying, is defined by the Cyberbullying Research Center, as "willful and repeated
harm" inflicted through phones and computers. The statistics:
42 percent of kids have been bullied while online.
35 percent of kids have been threatened online.
53 percent of kids admit to having said something mean or hurtful to another person
online.
58 percent have not told their parents or an adult about something mean or hurtful that
happened to them online.
Things parents can do:
The powerful impact of feeling scared, powerless, helpless, ashamed and other emotions
that can result from being cyber bullied, particularly when occurring over a long period,
has the capacity for long-lasting effects on children.
Ways that you can protect a child from any long-lasting negative impacts of cyber
bullying include:
Take lots of time to hear, listen and understand your child’s story
Discuss cyber bullying with the child and encourage them to tell you if they’re feeling
bullied
Be alert to any abnormal behavior / mood changes
Stay calm while your child is telling you his/her story, and be aware of your own
reactions.
Take complaints from the child seriously, do not brush them off
Try to ascertain what ‘meaning’ the child takes from the bullying, for example whether
they believe what the bully says about them

3. Assure the child that it is not their fault
Strategy for children against cyberbullying:
If you are the target of cyberbullying:
Don’t respond to bullying or inappropriate messages, but save them as evidence.
Don’t feel shame. Discuss any online incidents that make you feel uncomfortable with a
trusted adult, such as a family member, teacher or school counselor.
Always report online bullying, hate incidents, inappropriate sexual activity and threats
of harm to self or others to an adult family member (such as a parent), school authorities
and the police.
Block the e-mail addresses and cell phone numbers of people who are sending
unwanted messages; if the messages continue, an adult family member can help you to
change your phone numbers, e-mail addresses or screen names.
File complaints with e-mail services, Internet Service Providers, Web sites, cell phone
companies, etc. Service providers can find the offenders, cancel their service, and report
them to the police if necessary.
When in doubt about what to do, log off the computer and ask for help from a trusted
adult.
Tool against cyberbullying - SurveilStar Parental
Control Software:
If you are really concerned about your children's online safety you can install computer
monitoring software like SurveilStar parental control software to protect your children
from cyberbullying. This is a parental control software solution and will help you track
emails, IM’s, chats, social networking, websites visited, images viewed, etc.
SurveilStar Any Parental Control helps you start an all-out strategic battle with
cyberbullying and take back your power against any online dangers, while still letting
your children safely enjoy the games and resources that are available on the Internet.
SurveilStar is the perfect solution that can be used for you to response to any
cyberbullying.

4. When a cyberbullying incident occurs, it is important that schools, teens and families
work together to minimize the potentially devastating consequences for the targeted
individual and the school community as a whole.
Please note that kids' internet safety is a very important issue. Don't hesitate to download
the powerful internet monitoring software to prevent them from the victims of
cyberbullying.