A month later, Bartell was dead from an apparent suicide.
Bartell offers the following tips to help parents
boost their children's self-esteem:.
Bartell fled the house and wrote about her experience in Spindrift:
Spray From a Psychic Sea.
After moving in, Bartell almost immediately began feeling icy hands on the
back of her neck, and could smell a rotting corpse.
However, Bartell says, although kids do find some reassurance
from other viewers who comment on these videos, often other commenters can be very nasty.
Bartell decided to do some research on the history of her new house,
and discovered that multiple people were murdered or committed suicide there over the years.
Parenting psychologist Susan Bartell, author of The Top 50 Questions Kids Ask-
Pre-k Through 2nd Grade and The Top 50 Questions Kids Ask- 3rd through 5th Grade, said that although the presence of these videos on a social networking site as big as YouTube shines a larger spotlight on the issue, low self-esteem is not a recent trend among this age group.