With some simple spy ware, you can monitor each website they view, read their instant messages, see what they watched on TV, even put restrictions on incoming and outgoing calls! Now, GPS devices hidden in backpacks or cell phones allow parents to track their very movements. Parenting gone overboard?
I might have thought so, until a friend's teen-age daughter was caught leaving the house to meet up with some 'boys' she had met online--alone, at night... imagine her parents' distress! All text messages were quickly deleted before her parents could see them, and we will never know exactly whom she would have met that night.
While my instinct is to give my children the privacy I cherished as a child, there are clearly some limitations required in the electronic age. Explore more viewpoints at The Responsibility Project .
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