A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Your Child’s Cyber...
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The 4 R’s: • Recognize predators techniques to deceive. • Refuse personal info – including events in and about school. • Respond assertively in uncomfortable online situations . • Report suspicious or dangerous behavior. Teach your children how to take control of their cyber world – but remember that you should be just as involved in their online world as in their offline lives. Cyber stalking and bullying are wrong. Together we can teach our students the right way – the polite way - to conduct themselves online. Kennett High School 610-444-6620 A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Your Child’s Cyber Community Source: Student Toolkit I-SAFE, America 5900 Pasteur Ct. Suite 100 Carlsbad, CA. 92008 www.isafe.org RESOURCES •Kennett High School Guidance Office 610-444-6636 http: //khs . kcsd .org/Guidance / •Chester County Intermediate Unit 484-237-5000 http://www.cciu.org/ •Myspace.com Parents Tips www.myspace.com Cyber Bullying and Stalking –The Reality and Actions for Today’s Parent
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The 4 R’s:• Recognize predators techniques to deceive.• Refuse personal info –including events in andabout school.• Respond assertively inuncomfortable onlinesituations .• Report suspicious or dangerous behavior.
Teach your children how totake control of their cyberworld – but remember thatyou should be just asinvolved in their online worldas in their offline lives.
Cyber stalking and bullyingare wrong. Together we canteach our students the rightway – the polite way - toconduct themselves online.
Kennett High School610-444-6620
A Parent’s Guideto Understanding
Your Child’sCyber Community
Source:Student ToolkitI-SAFE, America5900 Pasteur Ct.Suite 100Carlsbad, CA. 92008www.isafe.org
RESOURCES
•Kennett High School Guidance Office 610-444-6636 http://khs.kcsd.org/Guidance/
•Chester County IntermediateUnit
484-237-5000 http://www.cciu.org/
•Myspace.com Parents Tips www.myspace.com
Cyber Bullying and Stalking–The Reality and Actions for
Today’s Parent
True or False?No one really knowswho you are on the
Internet, so it is ok tosay whatever you want.
False: Cyber bullying is apunishable crime in moststates & there are manyways to identify who iscontacting you over theInternet.
A good rule to live by:
If you would not talk to theperson on the street, whytalk to them in cyber-space?
Giving out personal info,school or social info canlead predators right to you.
Actions for
Parents & StudentsTo reduce the chance of Online Stalking andCyber Bullying,talk to your child about thefollowing:
• Avoiding provocative user names (yours and theirs)
• Avoiding private chats, sexual conversations
• Being suspicious if questions become personal orthey are asked to exchange pictures or gifts
• Chatters wanting the relationship to be kept secretor becoming angry if you want to end it
• Asking to meet or showing up unexpectedly
What to do if it happens:
• Cyber-stalking-you are online- tell them you have ascreen shot to report them and log off
• Cyber-bullying-respond assertively – no foullanguage – again advise them that you are saving ascreen shot to report them and log off. In thefuture do not open emails from the person, takescreen shots from web sites such as MySpace andkeep a log of the bullying behavior
• Use the chat room features for quick response(block, report user ID)
• Create a list of all your user IDs, a history of therelationship/ communications, do not delete any ofthe user accounts (need the history)
• Report it to someone – parent, teacher, police,another parent –talk to an adult. Do not allow thebehavior to continue or go unchecked – we haveguidelines to address Internet infractions and locallaw enforcement may get involved.
