Beware of Cyberbullies
Beware of Cyberbullies
Advancing technology makes it harder than ever to protect our kids — especially from each other
Isthmus, 20 May 2010
Excerpt from original source:
Even looking back on it now, Deb Archer did everything right. Like most parents today, the Dane County working mother carefully tiptoed the line between Internet safety and privacy.
Archer put the family computer in her home office, where she could keep a casual but deliberate eye on her 16-year-old daughter's Internet activities. And while her daughter's Facebook account was set to private, Archer had the password. She didn't check, though, in an act of trust.
"My daughter is a good kid," says Archer. "A nice kid, a cautious kid." They had a solid relationship, as far as teen girls and their mothers go.
There was a boy at school. He had some "obvious emotional and mental problems," and other kids picked on him. Archer's daughter did not. The boy developed a crush.
In person, the boy mostly kept his distance. On the Internet, however, he was much braver.
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