Good article on future parenting and spying/monitoring your children, What are your thoughts?
https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/06/living/feat-brutally-honest-parenting-spying/index.htmlI found out later in life that my mom read everything in my purse/backpack. Every note or anything. I never knew and don't really have any issues with it now.
Re: To Spy or Not To Spy?
On the other hand if you let your kids do whatever they want because "it's wrong" to spy on them then that's an issue!
There needs to be parenting but a balance.
One of my friends parents were super controlling and she went bsc and slept around with everyone she knew and was doing everything she could think of the go Behind their back. It was all in spite of them....
BUT someone else I know had no supervision and was let do whatever and had a baby at 16. So idk.
This whole topic freaks me out haha. I want to be strict but not strict all at once
My 13 year old was aware when we allowed her to use email (age 10-ish) that it would be monitored. (Her dad gets an auto email of everything she sends or receives).
She just got Facebook this past year. We have access to it as well.
Her phone/iPod is subject to random review of searches and text messages.
Her computer history is monitored as well.
None of these things existed when I was a child. If they didn't exist now, this wouldn't be an issue.