Cyberbullying is a growing trend across the country.
It’s been a long road to recovery for John Halligan after his son, Ryan, committed suicide in 2003.
Halligan says, “You never get over losing a child. There’s no getting over that.”
He says his son was a victim of cyberbullying and he didn’t realize it was happening until after his son passed.
Halligan says, “I think we were great parents in the physical world but I think we missed the mark when it comes to parenting in the cyberspace world.”
He is traveling the country and talking to parents and students about ways of preventing cyberbullying. He is reaching Valley parents like Teri Mcneal.
Mcneal says, “I have a young child at home that is on the Internet all the time. I don’t know how exactly to follow where she is going.”
She says, now that the bullying has gone online, it doesn’t stop once her child leaves the classroom.