Yesterday, I spent a good part of my day writing updates for an outdated Internet Safety brochure for parents.\u00a0 My plan is to add a few paragraphs on social networking sites and a little overview of cyberbullying.\u00a0 I certainly don’t claim expertise in those areas so I started fact finding.\u00a0 To summarize what I found, most every article and website said kids who experience cyberbullying should disengage from the activity, distance him\/herself from the bully, and tell an adult.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sounds good.\u00a0 Until it happens at the public library and I<\/em><\/strong> am the adult they tell. \u00a0Then what?\u00a0 Empathize?\u00a0 Ignore?\u00a0 Call the police?\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0 I am unprepared for the day an upset child comes to my desk and tells me, in some way, that he\/she is being bullied online.\u00a0 Based on my research yesterday, my advice will be to disengage from the activity, distance yourself from the bully, and tell your parents.\u00a0 Certainly your parents will know what to do.\u00a0 But why don\u2019t I?<\/p>\n What would you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, I spent a good part of my day writing updates for an outdated Internet Safety brochure for parents.\u00a0 My plan is to add a few paragraphs on social networking sites and a little overview of cyberbullying.\u00a0 I certainly don’t claim expertise in those areas so I started fact finding.\u00a0 To summarize what I found, most every article and website said kids who experience cyberbullying should disengage from the activity, distance him\/herself from the bully, and tell an adult.\u00a0 Sounds good.\u00a0 Until it happens at the public library and I am the adult they tell. \u00a0Then what?\u00a0 Empathize?\u00a0 Ignore?\u00a0 Call the police?\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0 I am unprepared for the day an upset child comes to my desk and tells me, in some way, that he\/she is being bullied online.\u00a0 Based on my research yesterday, my advice will be to disengage from the activity, distance yourself from the bully, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[11,24,16,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-priority-group-i","category-digital-world","category-professional-reading","category-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}