Your child is in elementary school and is begging you to buy them a cell phone, an iPod and iPad.聽 Anything, as long as they can communicate with their friends, either by texting or through social media.聽 As a parent, you鈥檙e worried about cyberbullying.聽 Indeed, up to 30% of children and adolescents admit to cyberbullying others, while 25% of students report being victimized on electronic platforms.聽 You rationalize that your child has lots of friends and that they will stand up for them in a bullying situation.聽 Do they?聽 What is the role of the bystander/friend during a bullying incident?
Classrooms that encourage competition between students may inadvertently be creating settings where bullying is more likely to take place. That鈥檚 one of the conclusions that can be drawn from work led by 9I制作厂免费 researchers Maria Di Stasio and Robert Savage, who recently published a paper on the subject in the But it鈥檚 only part of the story.
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