Health Tip: If Your Child is Cyberbullied

In this age of social media, parents should be prepared to help kids through episodes of cyberbullying.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission suggests:

Stay calm and avoid getting angry. Teach your child to ignore the bully and not to respond with more bullying.
Save all messages that show cyberbullying. If it continues, take the evidence to police.
Making sure your child's profile is the one he or she created. If the profile was created by someone your child doesn't know, have the site administrators remove it.

Block the bully's phone number or email address, or delete the bully from a friends list that allows contact. Much more can be done today.