The big ideaBlock stops messages. Report tells the helpers. Do both with a grown-up. It is not tattling.
How it works
Block stops that person from sending you messages.
Report tells the app's helpers to look. They may be able to stop that person bothering other people too.
Press both buttons with a grown-up beside you, so you are never alone.
Reporting is not tattling. It is telling to keep people safe, or to make a message stop.
Omar's five steps, one after another.Reporting or tattling?
Example 1: Messages that will not stop
A stranger keeps messaging you, and you did not answer.
Show a grown-up, who may take a picture of the screen to keep a copy.
Press Block with the grown-up beside you, then press Report.
Messages that will not stop.
Example 2: A mean picture
Bram saw a mean picture of a girl in his class and thought telling would be tattling.
A mean picture about someone is a time to report, so he showed his mom.
His mom reported the picture and told the teacher too.
Example 3: Finding the buttons
Most apps have a Block button and a Report button.
Look for three little dots, or the person's name.
If you cannot find them, a grown-up can help you look.
Example 4: Not every message
A friend says, 'Come and play at lunch!'
That is fine, so there is nothing to block.
Block is for messages that bother you.
Words to know
block
A button that stops that person from sending you messages.
report
A button that tells the app's helpers to look.
tattling
Telling just to get someone in trouble over something small.
helpers
The people at the app who look at what was reported.
copy
A picture of the screen, kept in case anyone needs to see it.
Watch out
Do not answer to make them stop. A reply tells them a real person is reading.
Do not keep it to yourself, or delete the app and say nothing. Show a grown-up.
Do not send a mean message back.
You are never in trouble for telling, blocking or reporting.
Try it
A stranger keeps messaging you. What is the first step?
What does Report do?
Is telling a grown-up about a mean picture of a classmate tattling?
You cannot find the Block button. What do you do?
Answers: 1. Stop, and do not answer · 2. Tells the app's helpers to look · 3. No, it is reporting · 4. Ask a grown-up to help look
Try at homeAsk a grown-up to show you where Block and Report are in an app your family uses. Find them together.
For grown-upsSit with your child and find Block and Report together in one app your family uses, so they know where the buttons hide before they need them.
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