Online Safety, Privacy & Digital Literacy

Teaching children not to forward embarrassing photos or messages

Teaching children not to forward embarrassing photos or messages

Define the behavior without minimizing it Begin with a clear, age-appropriate definition. Forwarding a photograph, screenshot, recording, or message that makes another person feel exposed, ashamed, threatened, or ridiculed can be harmful even if the sender describes it as a joke. Repeated or targeted behavior may meet common definitions of cyberbullying, but a single widely […]