Bullying???

[ButterflyWings]

Do you think there is more bullying??Do you think the internet is helping it escalate??Has it gone to far?? And what can we do as parents??

Yes I think bullying is more wide spread then when I was young and the forms it has taken are just sickening..

Goodness yes the internet is a big issue and well people act like asses behind a box and it seems easier to mess with them harder on here..

Way to far..Way to far

Me personally I stay informed with my kids on all aspects..I watch who they interact with on computer even thought they are not allowed on social sites..I talk with them when a issue comes up and become involved..and my oldest daughter is in a anti bullying thing at school which I also attend and help out with.

[mc1962]

I feel that it is a problem that is wide spread but kids today have more hatered in their hearts due to the things that society is teaching them.  It used to be that the kids settled their issues with fists but in this day and age they are using machine guns. 

We just have to trust that we are going to teach our kids a better way and hope for the best. 

[mrisha]

Bullying has really gotten out of hand.  I don't it bullying, its pure terrorism when you beat someone senseless leaving them bruise, swollen and having to change schools.  Why the schools doesn't do anything about it is impossible to understand.

[sgluckadoo]

I feel that it is a problem that is wide spread but kids today have more hatered in their hearts due to the things that society is teaching them.  It used to be that the kids settled their issues with fists but in this day and age they are using machine guns. 

We just have to trust that we are going to teach our kids a better way and hope for the best. 

yep. parents also are to blame. many dont understand that parenting is a verb, requireing action on their part... not a passive process.

[ninajay]

Oh yes, the internet most definitely escalates bullying. Some people seem to enjoy hurting other people any way they can.

[sweetmermaid]

Bullying is getting so bad now these days. Parents need to communicate with their kids more to find out their school lives.

[ButterflyWings]

I agree with you all schools really need to step up more..example:Last year some kid was really making my daughters life hell she went to a counselor to get the situation under control,this crazy person had the nerve to tell my kid she was to sensitive..Needless to say this counselor now dislikes me cause I stepped in..But telling a child who feels threatened your too sensitive is screwed up..And internet is a excuse for some to be complete assholes cause it is a way to hide and feel big and bad and safe..Idiots in my book I have low tolerance for mean rude people,I love all but push me and well I will not back down..LOL

[mattymatt79]

Thank the NEA in that regard.

Bullying should be settled on the schoolground. It's how we did it when we were young, but now it requires so much more.

[lucky382001]

I agree with you all schools really need to step up more..example:Last year some kid was really making my daughters life hell she went to a counselor to get the situation under control,this crazy person had the nerve to tell my kid she was to sensitive..Needless to say this counselor now dislikes me cause I stepped in..But telling a child who feels threatened your too sensitive is screwed up..And internet is a excuse for some to be complete assholes cause it is a way to hide and feel big and bad and safe..Idiots in my book I have low tolerance for mean rude people,I love all but push me and well I will not back down..LOL

Sounds like that counselor just didn't want to address the problem.

[lisabow44]

I think Bullying is getting out of hand.  You now have to put up with it on all of the social networking sites.  Where before you could leave school and not have to worry about it.

[shannieiner]

Glad you posted this - I'd love to know what to do about it. My son's adoptive mother says he gets bullied at school and I'd like to know what to do to stop it? My teenager also gets bullied. I don't understand why amazing kids get bullied? I was bullied a lot in school for being unique and different. I understand now as an adult that I was (and still am) just different, and that kids can be so mean. But now,   I've turned that into - I'm just unique and different and that's what makes me who I am today. I still get overlooked and looked down upon to this day, but now for me its like "oh well, their loss"  But its hard to get kids through this. Any ideas?

[mh874892]

I definitely think bullying is a topic that needs to be addressed. I grew up in a small town, so luckily there was not much physical violence, but emotional and psychological bullying took place every day. I think this occurs because of what kids see in the media: news, tv shows, movies, games, and on the internet. I am not a parent yet, so I do not have any first-hand advice there, but I think keeping a good relationship with your kids to where they can tell you their problems could help deter some situations from escalating.

[eveliseh]

It's always happened and it continues to happen. It’s really sad, but now with all the new technologies and network websites I feel like its getting worse.  My sister used to be bullied at school when she was 6 for being a little over weight. Now she is a nutritionist, very skinny. I’m happy for her career but she always sees herself as a little over weight child and that really affects’ her.  If you compliment her... she things it’s because she was fat before (or you are lying), every week she struggles with weight even thought she is perfectly normal… I have seen so many worse cases…  :-

[syntheticbeauty]

Bullying is always going to be a major issue...
Kids can't escape it anymore when they can get bullied via emails, text messages, Social network sites, instant messengers, school, work,ect.

It's sad because really there is nothing we can really do...
A girl I went to school with killed herself my freshmen year because someone posted a photo shopped photo of her on a naked woman's body.
 People called her rude names and pushed her for about 2 months until she ended her life.
The kid who made the photo only had to serve two weeks of detention for an hour each day.
>_<

[shannieiner]

I know and right now, there is a big thing about bullying leading to suicides on the internet - kids killing themselves because they're being bullied over being different, being gay - whatever. I have 2 teenagers and it most commonly happens among high-schoolers, so its a big worry for me. My kids aren't suicidal by any means, but they get teased and it makes me mad! I guess the best thing to do is to micro-manage it all, deal with what happens as it happens on a case by case basis. Talk to the school if that helps.