Bullies in My Pocket: When Cyberbullying Follows Our Children Home
Cyberbullying can follow children home through the phones in their pockets. Learn how parents can protect children from online bullying and digital harm. Bullies in My Pocket Greetings, everyone. Today, I want to speak to you not as a psychologist, writer, or social commentator, but simply as a parent. We love our children fiercely, regardless of their colour, creed, personality, appearance, abilities, or achievements. We want to see them grow into confident, emotionally secure human beings. We want them to laugh freely, make mistakes safely, discover who they are, and walk through childhood without carrying wounds they don’t yet have the words to describe. As conscious parents, we often worry about the obvious dangers. The school bully. The intimidating child who pushes, mocks, excludes, or humiliates. But there is another bully now. One who doesn’t have to stand in the school corridor. One who doesn’t have to sit behind your child’s classroom desk. One who doesn’t even have to ...
