Disturbing trend

[Seven_Costanza]

I have been communicating with parents at my daughter's school all day. There have been many problems in her class this year: sexual harassment, bullying, and now cutting. There was an incident today where a boy he grabbed a girl by the waist and pushed her to the ground. This boy has a history of "accidentally" bumping into girls. There are only 45 kids in her grade and the school doesn't seem to know how to handle these things. Partly, because these kinds of behaviors are beginning much earlier. They just hired a "puberty specialist" to meet with the kids, but I'm doubtful that will be an effective strategy.

Another alarming trend is the increase of students getting arrested at school for sometimes minor infractions (e.g. The school to prison pipeline). I regularly receive referrals from juvenile probation and I hate how schools are handling behavior. One of the biggest risk factos for adult incarceration is early exposure to the legal system. Plus, in my area, they are either suspending or expelling the kids and making them attend alternative schools. I recently tested a kid who had to "earn" back full time attendance. Basically, he had to attend school 3 hours per day 3 days a week for 9 weeks before he could return to school full-time. As a result he has anxiety about falling behind in school, too much free time, and is isolated from his peers. I went off on a slight tangent, but I would hate to see this trend extend to elementary school. I think schools should adopt a restorative justice approach, and there is research supporting the successful implementation of these programs within the school system.

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[GradStudent2020]

I was completely primed to believe the Momo suicide challenge hype.

Last summer a client (young girl) told me about “Momo”, drew me a picture, and telling me to look it up. She had been told from an older child that if you see Momo on a video (spliced in?) you would die. It sounded at the time like “Bloody Mary” in the mirror from my generation.

A few weeks ago a Peppa Pig cartoon was shared in a mom group I’m in (we all have toddlers). A few minutes into the video it cut to a man that showed how to cut yourself. It was a VERY fast clip, then back to Peppa Pig. Several people reported the video and it was removed.

 

[singasongofjoy]

My understanding: Momo specifically doesn't exist, no. But some of the things people were up in arms about RE: Momo (e.g., splicing inappropriate content into children's YouTube videos) definitely do happen. No clue on how widespread it is. If I have kids, they're getting tinker toys and Legos until they're 20.

It definitely exists. A kid with ASD that I know ran into this because you know how if you let the YouTube video end it just automatically goes to the next video and on and on? Somehow went from watching videos about the movie CARS to porn and, having ASD, didn't have the judgment to know what to do with that info (to put it succinctly) and DSS ended up getting involved. It spiraled out of control pretty quickly, all from unsupervised YouTube. But I do think it is infrequent.

 

[singasongofjoy]

I went to the CDC's website to confirm this and it does not seem to support what you're saying?
Suicide rates rising across the U.S. | CDC Online Newsroom | CDC



Products - Data Briefs - Number 309 - June 2018
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Other research sources seem to support what LadyHalycon is talking about:
https://static1.squarespace.com/sta...7a/1526064668631/suicidio2167702617723376.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/profil...ational-Vital-Statistics-System-Mortality.pdf

I'm curious about the other end of the spectrum - I notice suicide rates in the 75+ are down. Anyone have thoughts on that?