How to Deal with Text Bullying – 4 Most Feasible Ways

No kid is safe from cyber bullying which is ever including people within and out of everything else text bullying is taking a horrendously massive shape with almost every kid owning a mobile phone. It is easier to text hate messages maintaining complete anonymity from anywhere at any time.

But this cannot be taken as a reason for letting the text bullying cases keep escalating and not doing anything about it at all. Whether you are a parent or a guardian or a teacher or somebody from the authority of some school, it should be your first and foremost task at hand to stop kids from getting into the

business of scaring others or making their peer feel bad, embarrassed or debased to hell.

Every year hundreds of kids stop going to school or simply miss their classes just to avoid being bullied. But with hate messages being bombarded on to their cell phones, they aren’t safe at home too. If technology is a boon, it is equally a dangerous thing used most damagingly and everyone who wants the kids to use the technology in safer and better way needs to come up collaboratively to help fight bullying through text message issues.

Below are 4 most feasible way to knock down text bullying issues and deal with them for good!

Teach kids to stay safe while texting

Texting pretty similar to driving a car, only difference is that the machine is different and vehicle doesn’t really take you places! Now whether you drive clumsily or super-duper fast, in both cases there are chances of meeting with accident but when drive smart: take care of who is coming from the front; what vehicles are around; how much space is there; if somebody is blowing horn or not; and so on, you do it the best! Similarly, when you know whether it is fine to reply to a certain person or not; should you be giving away your phone number to somebody or not; if the kind of messages you are receiving are really fine or audaciously offensive; and so on, you know how exactly does the texting thing works.

Teach your child certain things like not to share number with all; not to delete messages and rather keep evidences when any message appear awfully bad; and never to share any kind of “SECRET” through messaging or even through mails or post them online to maintain total safety.

Encourage kids to contact reliable adults when in trouble

The biggest of the troubles that kids face when somebody harass or abuse them is their sense of insecurity that make them hide things from their parents and make things worse than ever. Let your child have confidence in you. Talk to your child and maintain a friendly spirit while you converse. One best thing to do is to discuss every kind of topic with your child so that there is no hesitation between you and your child. This will encourage a much friendlier relationship and your child will never feel bad or afraid or sharing troubles with you. Also, encourage your child to confide things to other reliable adults like teachers, coach, or older siblings; this will be useful in case your child is in trouble and you aren’t available at the moment.

Start up or help others start up community events and workshops to teach kids how to deal with text bullying

If you are a teacher you can talk to your school authorities to start special workshop comprising of special counseling sessions and other activities involving kids, parents and other teachers. But even if you are a parent or an older sibling worried about the kids being troubled by bullies, you can surely do something to help them by involving your neighbors; various organizations; schools and institutions; kids: both victims and culprits (don’t forget culprits themselves are victims at times and they need your help too) to form a group to work towards helping kids how to deal with text bullying – an ugly misuse of technology.

Make sure that your efforts finally educate the participants against all the nuisances of cyber bullying through texting and how can this be minimized.

Parental monitor child text messages and other cell phone usages

Well, if it isn’t possible for you to start up a petition or arrange a workshop or spread the awareness, you still have other ways to help your child and other parents. Of course, educating them will help and so will proper communication, but at the same time you can think of parental monitoring child text messages to help your kid. This will let you know about all the messages that lands up on your child’s inbox and know if they are troublesome or happy ones!  Talk to other parents to know how they monitor their kids’ digital devices and what exactly they do to stop kids from being abused and also share your ideas with others. This healthy reciprocation will not just help your kid but will benefit bully-victims at large!

Again, to make your monitoring more effective, you can think of using proper cell phone monitoring app on your child’s cell phone. This is another kind of collaborative effort! Yes, collaboration with technology to fight against those who misuse the tech to harass innocent kids! Simply track child cell phone and know about every single text message, even if your child has deleted some of them and with proper details and most reliable evidences work against those who harass kids!