The Role of Parents in the Prevention of Cyber Bullying in Covid 19 Pandemic

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210506.041How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Role, Parents, Prevention, Cyber Bullying, Child, Covid 19 Pandemic

Abstract

Before the covid 19 pandemic, children studied at school and interacted directly with their friends including the practice of direct bullying. Children can not learn and interact directly, because they have to learn online from home. Learning online using information technology devices such as smartphones. Means that children are also given an option to access social media, as a means of interacting with their friends. This can cause problems because in their use they can be involved in cyber bullying, as a result of not being able to meet in person. During the covid 19 pandemic, the children continue with their smartphone without the full supervision of parents. The lack of parental supervision, gives them chances to easily insults or taunts at someone they do not like through social media. Bullying has a negative effect especially on victim. Seeing these negative impact the role of parents in the prevention of bullying by children in the covid 19 pandemic should be optimized. The purpose of the research is to analyze the impact of cyber bullying by children and analyze the role of parents in the prevention of cyber bullying in the covid 19 pandemic. The research is normative juridical research. Documentation study was used as the technique to collect the data. The research discovered cyber bullying causes negatively affects to a child, and can traumatize a child as a victim. The trauma make the children become lazy, such as the feeling of being ashamed to meet his friends, lazy to learn, and even depressed. On the other hand, bullying has legal consequences for the perpetrator. Children can not be left alone to use their gadgets on the learning online in the time of the covid 19 pandemic. Full parental assistance and supervision of the child are required in the use of gadgets. Despite being busy with their work, parents should always keep an eye on all children’s activities. Parents should always accompany and know what the child is doing, especially when the child uses his/her smartphone in online learning activities.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nursariani Simatupang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/08
TI  - The Role of Parents in the Prevention of Cyber Bullying in Covid 19 Pandemic
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Law and Human Rights 2020 (ICLHR 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 308
EP  - 313
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210506.041
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