<![CDATA[Bullying behavior among adolescents in Indonesia shows a worrying trend, partly triggered by inappropriate parenting styles and uncontrolled exposure to social media, as identified in a case of adolescent bullying in Sukamakmur District, Bogor Regency, in early 2025. The problem faced by the community partners, namely mothers in Sukaharja Village, includes limited understanding of effective parenting styles, low digital literacy, and the absence of family mechanisms for addressing social-media-based bullying. This community service activity, conducted under the University's Flagship Assisted Village scheme, offers a solution in the form of education on parenting styles and social media literacy to prevent adolescent bullying. The implementation method comprised interactive lectures, focus group discussions, and case simulations during the training stage, followed by intensive mentoring, with evaluation conducted through a Guttman-scaled pretest-posttest questionnaire covering 12 indicators. The training was held on 19–21 May 2026 and followed by two months of mentoring, which generally proceeded smoothly as planned. Evaluation results for the 17 participating mothers showed an increase in the average score from 55.95% (Poor category) to 77.06% (Good category), with a normalized gain (N-Gain) of 0.479 (Moderate category). The highest improvement occurred in the digital literacy indicator (N-Gain 0.70), whereas improvement in the family mechanism for addressing digital bullying remained low (N-Gain 0.25), indicating that changes in parenting patterns require longer-term mentoring compared with gains in knowledge. This activity proved effective in enhancing the understanding and awareness of mothers in Sukaharja Village regarding healthy parenting and wise social media management as an effort to prevent adolescent bullying, and therefore needs to be followed up through sustained mentoring]]>
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