Kids in Mind: Helping parents fight online bullying
Rachel Melville-Thomas talks about the emerging problem of “cyber-bullying”, the use by kids of social media to pick on other children. To help fight the phenomenon, she says it’s imperative that parents know what online technology their kids are using, such as Skype, blogs, Facebook, and Twitter. And parents should know the passwords to these accounts. She also says computers should not be in kids’ bedrooms behind closed doors, so that parents can more easily monitor the screens: