We all love pranks. There funny, unexpected, and harmless right? But not this prank. An 11 year old boy, Tysen Benz, died last week of injuries from a suicide attempt. He hung himself, but he didn't leave no note. But once his mom looked into his phone, she realized why he did. Supposedly, he received a text saying that his girlfriend committed suicide. And who sent the text? His girlfriend did, using her computer with a different account. The mother of Tysen Benz was completely unaware that her son was dating someone. "He did not have my permission to be dating," she said. "He didn't call her his girlfriend to me because he knew I was disapproving." She also didn't even know that he had a phone as well. "I would never buy my kids phones," she said. "I think that's ridiculous."
(Picture of Tysen Benz)
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Do you think there could be a way to prevent situations like this?
I think not playing these horrible pranks would pretty much end situations like this. It's very sad what happened to Tysen and I hope people realize that their actions do have consequences.
If you had an 11 year old kid, would you buy them a phone?
I would probably give them a phone, but I would go through their phone maybe like twice a month.
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Good summary but you didn't reply to any student comments.
I think that parents and schools need to start talking to kids at an early age, such as 6th grade, about how it is not okay to pull pranks likes this, and what the consequences are. If I had an 11 year old child I myself would probably get them a phone just so if we were to get separated they would be able to call me and tell me where they are. I think I would go through their phone maybe just to make sure that there isn't anything going on that shouldn't be going on.
That's quite messed up in my opinion. Kids nowadays are way to stupid and they are not aware of the consequences their words might have. Pranks like that aren't funny and by educating kids a little bit more about things like cyber bullying, bullying in general, and suicide could maybe prevent things like that from happening. I am not sure if I would allow my eleven year old kid to have a phone on it's own. I grew up without a lot of media and I think it's better that way. There's a lot of crap out there in the internet, it's dangerous and I am not sure if kids should have contact with that stuff at this age.
Not playing the pranks will definitely help prevent these situations. Its not right to do this to people honestly people need better things to do in their days. I would get my kid a phone but only one that can call me and or someone else important and the cops.
The only way to prevent situations is to not allow there kids to have a phone or if they checked their phone every so often. I wouldn't buy my kids phone until they can prove that they are responsible enough to have one.
I think these kind of horrible pranks can't really be stopped really easily other than appealing to the pranksters emotions. I hope people planning these kind of pranks see this story and realize these topics are not to be played with and made fun of. This is a really sad situation. Considering where I live (in Finland) and the era we live in, I would definitely buy my kid a phone.
I think pranks like these shouldn't be played at all. You never know how serious it could get and you also never know how the other person might react to something like that. If I had an 11 year old I don't think I'd let them have a phone quit that young. I'd pry wait a little bit but they would probably have other electronics.
The only thing one could do to prevent this is to not allow there kids to have phones at that young of an age. Another thing is that maybe they should pay a little more attention to their kids. I would not buy them a phone until they were a little older and more responsible.
I think a way to prevent situations like this would be to not allow kids that young to date or own phones, but his mom wasn't even aware that he was doing either of those things. So it seems to me like she wasn't concerned enough to know about that, so another way to prevent this would be for parents to really know what's going on in their kids' lives. If I had an 11 year old kid, I would not let them buy a phone. I don't think they would need a phone until they're at least 13 or 14, and only to be used mainly for if they're in sports or something and need to call me to be picked up when they're done with practice.
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