In this podcast episode, we are going to be talking about “cyberbullying” or what we like to call “digital peer aggression”.  This topic deserves so much attention that we are going to split it up into two podcasts, this week we are going to be talking about the who, what, where, when, how, and why of cyberbullying, and in next week’s podcast we are going to look at what parents and schools can do to cope with this challenge.

Resources mentioned:

• Our Website: www.thewhitehatter.ca

• Our FREE webbook “Parenting In An Online World” https://www.thewhitehatter.ca/book-list

• Canadian COVID bullying research https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ab.21986  https://healthydebate.ca/2022/07/topic/pandemic-bullying/

• USA COVID bullying research https://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai21-436.pdf

• University of Alberta research cyberbullying & mental health https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/dev-dev0001300.pdf

• Cyberbullying Research Center “Digital Self Harm” https://cyberbullying.org/digital-self-harm-suicide