Things You'll Need:
- Access to your kids' accounts
- Close communication with your tween
- A watchful eye on your tween for change of behavior or depression
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Step 1
Have your tween keep her passwords private. This means they should not give even their closest friends passwords to their email, instant message boards, blogs or websites. If that friend should turn on them, they can in turn use that information to write horrible things about other people making the victim look like the guilty party.
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Step 2
Teach your tween to never give out personal information online, as strangers can become cyber bullies as well. They need to keep their address, where they go to school, and their schedules private.
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Step 3
Have your tween ignore threatening messages, and also show them to you. In fact, you should be monitoring the accounts of a child this age, so you should get the messages before they do.
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Step 4
Parents need to monitor their child's moods and behavior on and off the computer. This will give you a clue that someone is harassing them, allowing you to take proper steps.
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Step 5
Do not allow kids to communicate online with people they have never met. Anyone that your child chats with or emails should be someone they know from school, church or the neighborhood.
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Step 6
When cyber bullying occurs, report it to the parents, school, Internet provider, cell phone companies and websites (all that apply). Cyber bullying often violates service terms of many websites and service providers, and so there should be a way to legally stop the harassment. You can also report online harassment to the police.
