How to Avoid Mob Mentality

Teaching Kids about Mob Mentality

Identify an incident.

Unfortunately, they are all around us.

1. Talk about the inciting incident. What exactly happened. Be careful to not bias your kids. Just state the facts.

2. TOGETHER: Identify 3-10 ways to handle the situation. How can it have been handled differently? What can you and your kids do to make a difference.

3. Explain about mob mentality.

4. Explain that you are going to look at how some people reacted to the situation and together you’re going to identify why it was good or bad. The goal is to identify wrong behavior.

5. Brainstorm ways to get away/ avoid mob mentality.
Repeat often.

Ways to find examples:
-Text messages gone bad
-Social media comment threads (be careful)
-News feeds
-Real life.

We need to teach our kids how to think through these crazy situations and give them the skills to identify when the mob mentality steps in and how to stay out and stay safe.