(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A Chicago family is hoping to turn tragedy into change.
In January, Rose and Robert Bronstein lost their son, 15-year-old Nate Bronstein, to suicide.
“We had no idea that he was being cyberbullied,” Rose says. “It was a shock.”
“It’s an epidemic,” Robert adds. “I mean, everywhere you turn, there are similar stories. We wanted our son’s legacy to be about making sure that this didn’t happen again.”
Given their son’s love for basketball, and help from popular social media hooper T-Jass, the Bronstein’s launched Buckets Over Bullying.
“We’re going to start with education around the community of Chicago,” Rose says. “It’s time to educate children how to be good digital citizens; faculty and staff at all schools how to handle incidents of cyberbullying and keeping our children protected from harm. Parents also need to be educated about what goes on with their children on social media.”
The Organization for Social Media Safety and Jesse White Foundation are set to help the non-profit host a safety rally in Chicago next month.
“We have experts that are coming here,” Robert said. “They’re setting up shop in Illinois. We’re very serious about rolling out their education throughout the city and the state, and the first opportunity to benefit from that will be at our event on Nov. 5.”
Learn more online at bucketsoverbullying.org.
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