Blake & Dave, co-founders of My Life Online, teach kids the right way to respond to cyberbullies
In our third post discussing the Digital Sanity Summit, we learn how to combat cyberbullying with a tactic that transforms potential harm into proactive healing.
The Digital Sanity Summit is a free online event from March 30-April 3 that features a panel of experts offering useful insights to help parents navigate how to raise kids in the digital age. Earlier this week, we posted about Avast’s Leena Elias and her Summit talk on how to keep families safe online, as well as the Council of Europe’s Dr. Elizabeth Milovidov and her tips for parents of tech-using kids.
Now, we switch over to the kids’ point of view. Enter Blake and Dave.
They are the co-founders of My Life Online, a program that reaches across schools and communities to teach children how to be safe, smart, and kind online. Their secret? They don’t talk down to the kids, and they don’t lecture them. Instead, they empower the kids by talking to them in their language, at their level. They teach about respect and decency online, and one of their lessons concerns how to deal with cyberbullying.
While kids cannot control the words or actions of a bully, they can control how they respond to those words or actions. “A new life skill that we believe kids need to be equipped with is how to handle haters ..
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