psychologist jeff gardier is an nbc contributor and a contributor as well to health guru come.oing through tyler's head when he figured out everything that happened to him. as a parent speaking to a child, what can you say to your child, how do you convince them that this isn't the end of the world and that things will get better? >> it's hard to tell them something like that because being in tyler's head at this point, we can only imagine the devastation and the humiliation that h felt when there was this streaming of his encounter with another man. we're talking about a gay youth here, a gay young man who probably has already had all sorts of emotional conflicts. so all we can do as a parent is let them know that we will be there for him in any way, that what happened to him doesn't define who he is, what defines him is how he gets through this very difficult situation in his life. regrettably, he took the wrong way out. but for other parents who are out there who are dealing with their kids who have been humiliat humiliated, who have been outed, college is the place for tran

. >> psychologist jeff gardier is an msnbc contributor and a contributor to health.com. about, get help, you're not alone in this. how do you talk to a young person about something like this? >> the most important thing is that parents shouldn't be in the closet themselves about the sexuality of their children. quite often parents may say, well, we didn't know he was gay or lesbian, but parents do know, they do have an inkling, so they have to have these conversations very early on in life with their children and offer them the support. as difficult as it may be for parents to accept the sexuality of their child, let that child know that you love them and that there is support, as ellen degeneres said there are such port groups out there and we have to talk to kids, because these bisexual kids, transgender kids, kids who question their sexuality, are four times more likely to commit suicide than kids that are heterosexual. >> i know parents are very, very scared to begin that conversation. what would you suggest, how do you begin that conversation? what can you say? >> i

also with us psychologist and nbc contributor jeff gardier. king at these pictures. should we make sure we have security protections? what do you think about a kid having a footprint that young? >> the bottom line is, this is where we are in our history and as we're seeing, they're going even younger than 6 months. in vitro, as you said. the bottom line is, the computer age is here to stay. and we are going to have kids doing this. we're going to have the mothers putting the kids on and, look, the thing is we need to be careful as parents that by creating that footprint these pictures and the information is not used against these kids as they get older or when they become adults. >> used against them where they just get mad at you because someone was able to google them. i was surprised, there is this new prototype device being put out by fisher-price. it essentially hooks a baby's toy up to a twitter account so grandma and grandpa in florida have the twitter and then the baby shakes the rattle and they know the baby is shaking the rattle. wher