Parents often have a false sense of security when thinking their children are safe and sound while they attend school. As a result, many children today now face a far more serious problem than their parents realize in the form of the school bully. Unfortunately, most instances of school bully activity are unreported by the victims and it is often difficult for parents and teachers to discover the problem and help the victim deal with the harm inflicted upon them. In addition to the standard school yard bully, today there is a new type of bully that your children may encounter online after school hours in the form of Cyber-Bully’s who use the internet to follow their victims home after school. Online bullying is now so prevalent that over 33% of kids who are active online have been the victim of at least one Cyber Bully.
The statistics from several recent surveys of kid’s use of the Internet sheds light on some very disturbing information including the fact that over 75% of U.S. school children are, or have been, the target of a bully or Cyber-Bully that caused them physical, psychological or emotional harm. Some 20% of the students surveyed confessed to being a bully or taking part in bullying actions, and what might be worse is that more than half of all bullying events go unreported.
The bullying numbers get worse the farther you dig into them, with over 280,000 children being physically attacked by a school bully every month. That means every seven minutes a kid is bullied on a school playground in the U.S. somewhere, and over 85% of the incidents occur without any intervention from adults who could help with the problem. The problem is so huge that every day there are over 150,000 kids who stay home and miss school because they are fearful that they will be bullied if they do attend classes and nearly half of all boys and one quarter of all girls end up in physical confrontations as a result of being bullied.
When your usually chatty and happy kid comes home from school a little depressed and much quieter than normal, it can be a sign that something bad is up. If your kid suddenly stops communicating with friends and seems like they don’t want to read their text messages anymore, it may be due to bullying over the phone by text message.
Parent who are rightly concerned about their children’s safety and welfare may not get a complete answer when they ask their teen who is the source of the bullying. However, if you can get your hands on their cell phone for a moment, you can look at the call history to find the number of the person who has been sending the threatening or suggestive messages. Once you’ve got a number in hand, the next step is to find the person behind that number.
Obviously, with the suspect number in hand, you can find out who has been calling by employing a reverse phone number search. The reverse phone number lookup is a very effective tool that allows you to learn a surprising amount of information about a caller. Based on what you learn from the reverse phone search and comments from your own kid, you can assure your child that the problem will be dealt with directly and immediately, and if not by the police, then perhaps by another appropriate course of action. The important thing is that you deal with the problem as soon as possible using the best tools at your disposal, and for many parents, the best and most effective tool is usually a reverse phone number search.
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