Counseling can free kids of Net

Parents who subject their kids to electric shocks, brain surgery or other violent methods in rehabilitation centers to wean them away from the Internet should determine what led to their addiction in the first place, and try to be their friends, philosophers and guides, says an article in the Beijing News. Excerpt:

Fifteen-year-old Deng Senshan, was beaten to death by instructors at a rehabilitation center for Internet addicts in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Aug 4. It's a tragedy indeed that parents wanted to free Deng of his addiction, but because of the wrong method they chose they freed him of his life.

Desperate parents should draw a lesson from the Ministry of Health, which banned the use of electric-shock therapy on Internet addicts last month to deter people from using violence on kids.