I am paying the bill and you WILL be MONITORED (parent, girls)
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Do you think GPS is going to stop kids from lying? With or without GPS and other tracking devices did you and your older kids manage to grow up and become functioning adults and responsible citizens?
We did but only because we grew up in a fairly small city that was well supervised by the police. In that city, 11PM curfew meant curfew and the police would haul you home to mom and dad. If it was the first time, just a stern warning. After that, fines.
If I felt that I needed GPS and monitoring to track my teenager, there is no way they would be out in a car that I provided. If I didn't trust them no way would I give them a car.
I choose to trust until proven otherwise. My kids are 24 and 15 - so far this has worked. As my older one told the younger one "you will have more freedom than most of your friends, don't blow it, you will regret it"
To be fair dew- do you think kids always tell the truth? I certainly didn't when I was a teen and I know my grown kids didn't when they were teens. No cell phone or GPS or personal computers then but if there had been we would have been all about monitoring. When our "little girls" get phones we will probably use those features. I think it is good to let your kids know they have someone to answer to.
Honesty about where you were and who you were with was (and still is) very important in our family. And it was a matter of courtesy to let everyone know where you were going. Having to track someone was never an issue in our family.
Of course it's important to let your kids know they have someone to answer to. But in our family, that was instilled from a young age. Along with a sense of responsibility and honesty within the family unit. (Think members of a team.) I think if that message gets through at a young age the need for tracking goes way down.
He is now 17. My oldest boy but my daughter is 23 and has her own daughter. I don't monitor her and never did. My younger son, no trouble out of him as of yet. But my oldest has been in plenty including being suspended from school 3 times, being caught with liquor and marijuana and attending illegal street races.
He is now 17. My oldest boy but my daughter is 23 and has her own daughter. I don't monitor her and never did. My younger son, no trouble out of him as of yet. But my oldest has been in plenty including being suspended from school 3 times, being caught with liquor and marijuana and attending illegal street races.
Well, if that was my kid he wouldn't have a cell phone and I agree I'd be on him constantly. However, for your typical kid I wouldn't monitor them, especially not at 17, at that point I would hope that the values and rules that we had established over the years had sunk in because adulthood is around the corner and you can't monitor them then.
Well, if that was my kid he wouldn't have a cell phone and I agree I'd be on him constantly. However, for your typical kid I wouldn't monitor them, especially not at 17, at that point I would hope that the values and rules that we had established over the years had sunk in because adulthood is around the corner and you can't monitor them then.
Well, mom and dad aren't responsible then. If a minor kid deems monitoring, then monitoring it shall be.
All I can think of is that it could be a full-time job to monitor teens - and not a fun one. Of course teens are "up to things." It's kind of terrible for both parties that this technology is available.
I find the monitoring a bit creepy really but meh, if it works for your family then fine. If they don't like it they can always pay for their own phones and cars.
I think it's all creepy especially since these are adults we're talking about and it's not the grandparents' job to monitor the grandkids.
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