Tips on how to keep your kids safe on social media sites

Psychotherapist and author Anne McCormack says children under the age of 12 lack the psychological maturity to deal with social media

I AM a big fan of social media but I feel very strongly that it is causing harm to our young people.

From images of young people in compromising sexual encounters in the local disco being shared like a virus for the whole school community to see, to the impact on young teens of following ‘stars’ who bombard them with images of how they ‘should’ look in order to be popular, the social media world has its dangers.