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difficult child being bullied again, only now it is over the
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<blockquote data-quote="Martie" data-source="post: 111516" data-attributes="member: 284"><p>I'm "late" and "old" to be in on this but in a very early example of cyber bullying, prior to FaceBook and MySpace, directly contributed to ex-difficult child landing in EGBS. Ex-difficult child was falsely accused of making a threat IN SCHOOL (verbally--which he did not do--school took no action in this regard) and then the whole thing blew up in IMs and ICQ. </p><p></p><p>I called the police because there were INCOMING threats...at this point, I trusted my gut and did not rely on TOS (although I think quoting the above is very good.) I had a depressed, suicidally leaning difficult child who was being falsely accused and threatened by kids who would tell THEIR parents he was dangerous and then talk to him the next day. This is the epitome of "friend one day, enemy the next," --hour, never mind day. I agree this is more common in girls, but boys do it,too.</p><p></p><p>At that point in time, almost 7 years ago, there had been no suicides as a result of cyber bullying that I know of, but I sensed my kid could have been ahead of the curve on this one, so I acted and called the police. The culprits ended up doing community service for 20 hours; my kid entered a downward spiral that did not end for 2.5 years. Life is not fair but bullying should never be ignored in my opinion no matter what the kid says he/she wants you to do.</p><p></p><p>Final note: Ex-difficult child is doing well and will be 21 on his next b'day. However, in his social interactions with peers, sometimes I can still see the effects of horrible bullying as a child. I did all I could to stop it, but obviously, I was not successful enough. Another problem for the parent of a bullied child is you will get advice, especially for a boy, that it "toughens" them to work this stuff out on their own. That is garbage advice in my opinion. If I had it to do again (a thread topic that parents of older difficult children sometimes get into on PE,) I would have taken ex-difficult child out of public school much earlier to STOP THE BULLYING, both in person when he was younger and on the internet when he was older.</p><p></p><p>My .02, which with interest in the last 7 years has doubled to .04 :wink: </p><p></p><p>Martie :soapbox: :warrior: :soapbox:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Martie, post: 111516, member: 284"] I'm "late" and "old" to be in on this but in a very early example of cyber bullying, prior to FaceBook and MySpace, directly contributed to ex-difficult child landing in EGBS. Ex-difficult child was falsely accused of making a threat IN SCHOOL (verbally--which he did not do--school took no action in this regard) and then the whole thing blew up in IMs and ICQ. I called the police because there were INCOMING threats...at this point, I trusted my gut and did not rely on TOS (although I think quoting the above is very good.) I had a depressed, suicidally leaning difficult child who was being falsely accused and threatened by kids who would tell THEIR parents he was dangerous and then talk to him the next day. This is the epitome of "friend one day, enemy the next," --hour, never mind day. I agree this is more common in girls, but boys do it,too. At that point in time, almost 7 years ago, there had been no suicides as a result of cyber bullying that I know of, but I sensed my kid could have been ahead of the curve on this one, so I acted and called the police. The culprits ended up doing community service for 20 hours; my kid entered a downward spiral that did not end for 2.5 years. Life is not fair but bullying should never be ignored in my opinion no matter what the kid says he/she wants you to do. Final note: Ex-difficult child is doing well and will be 21 on his next b'day. However, in his social interactions with peers, sometimes I can still see the effects of horrible bullying as a child. I did all I could to stop it, but obviously, I was not successful enough. Another problem for the parent of a bullied child is you will get advice, especially for a boy, that it "toughens" them to work this stuff out on their own. That is garbage advice in my opinion. If I had it to do again (a thread topic that parents of older difficult children sometimes get into on PE,) I would have taken ex-difficult child out of public school much earlier to STOP THE BULLYING, both in person when he was younger and on the internet when he was older. My .02, which with interest in the last 7 years has doubled to .04 [img]:wink:[/img] Martie [img]:soapbox:[/img] [img]:warrior:[/img] [img]:soapbox:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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