Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying

Bullying is an age old costume that has been around since the dawn of time. It has always been know as school yard fun, or kids will be kids. During the time it was seen in that manner adolescence were not getting hurt as bad as they are in today's society. It used to be one could run home and be protected by the walls of their home and personal sanctity. Today those walls are being invaded; there is no place for adolescence to find safety, and their personal sanctity is being invaded. They are being insulted, humiliated, teased, rumors are being made-up and spread, videoed, photographed, and mass messages are going out about them. The people that are doing this are faceless, and the adolescent has no way of confronting them or stopping these things from going out. They have no control of who sees it, or how many people see it. They have no way of defending themselves from this viscous attack on their character, personal beliefs, and life style. Cyberbullying is out of control and ruining adolescences lives, therefore changes need to be made in laws, school policies, and enforcement of these policies.

Parents of adolescent children have one of the toughest jobs when it comes to child rearing. This stage is one of the most challenging for the adolescent as well as the parent. Both parties have a lot of changes to deal with. The adolescent is going through so many changes, their bodies and minds are in a stage of constant turmoil, and dealing with peers is a difficult situation. Dealing with the changes that are occurring within the adolescent bodies, parents sometimes struggle to understand how the changes are affecting their children and in return struggle to understand their coping mechanisms. Adolescences have many mood swings, and also may not understand what is happening within their bodies that cause them to be so emotional. Emotions run from extreme happiness, to sudden anger, and many forms of depression. It is important for parents to learn typical mood swings that occur in their adolescences so they can understand or see when something atypical is happening. Dealing with peers is another issue that is hard for both parents and adolescences. Most parents want what they feel is best for their children. In wanting this, when other adolescences are doing what one my view as wrong or mean the parent may step in and try to handle their adolescence problems for them. This causes more problems for the adolescence and they also do not learn to properly stand-up for themselves. Warding off negative attacks is often more difficult then parents understand, and it takes a strong individual too stand-up to their attackers. For adolescences conforming to the understood peer norm is the easy thing to do, while others continue to do their own thing and have opinions different than the peer norm struggle to feel accepted. Problems begin to occur when peers look at adolescences as "different."

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