Another variation on the same theme of parents who need to be pushed to parent. According to today's Washington Post, the principle of the highly acclaimed Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland, has become so concerned about the threats, harassment, baiting and bullying that goes on unchecked and en masse at Facebook, the online social networking site, he has taken "the unusual step of asking parents to monitor their children's postings on the social networking site."

Parents monitor children? What is the post-grown-up world coming to?