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If I pay the cellphone bills of my children or even my grandchildren (family plan), then yes, until you are 18, I will use the GPS in your phone to monitor where you go and when you go there. I do not see where this is even in argument but in my family it has been. I feel that it is the right of a parent to monitor a kid's cellphone GPS and even his or her driving if it is your car or you paid for them a car. If mine are out after hours, I want to know why, where and what they are doing. If they tell me they are going somewhere, I want the ability to verify that is where indeed they are going. And BTW, if it makes them feel any better, they can monitor my phone GPS as well.
I use the find my iphone for my daughter all the time and she is in college.
She knows I do it. I am not snooping I just check to see if she is in class or driving before I call or text her.
It was great when she was learning to drive. I could make sure she hadn't had an accident, without bothering her.
She never really goes anywhere shady so it wasn't an issue of "monitoring" but more a way to not worry when she was a few minutes late.
So we monitor all children until when? College like one poster? How about on their honeymoon or during their first job interview? Or does the monitoring magically disappear at 18?
My opinion is that as parents it's our job to raise self sufficient adults. Not to cage them in by not trusting them (and also not allowing them to screw up...there's value there too) and then thrusting them out into a world where no one cares if they party till 1am or spend the night at Bobby's house.
If we GPS them to death, never let them make decisions that might be wrong, and then force them to grow up and act independently...well how they are supposed to know how to do that?
Give them a curfew. Require good grades and respectable behavior. Expect them to answer the phone when you call. When they lie ground them and take away the damn phone. But don't infantilize them, you're not doing them or society any favors.
I feel that it is the right of a parent to monitor a kid's cellphone GPS and even his or her driving if it is your car or you paid for them a car. If mine are out after hours, I want to know why, where and what they are doing. If they tell me they are going somewhere, I want the ability to verify that is where indeed they are going. And BTW, if it makes them feel any better, they can monitor my phone GPS as well.
And soon he is going to be "accidentally forgetting" his phone over at a friend's house when going out or turning the phone off and saying the battery died.
Sorry to disappoint you but mine are grown and there was never a need to use a tracking device to see where they were.
Yes. There are families with no need to track their children.
I'd like to hear about the stuff they got away with!
I'm not saying all kids are out there doing Benzodiazepine. It's always better to err on the side of caution when it comes to protecting our kids.
That old saying "...do you know where your children are?" Just because they answer their phone, just because that's what they say, doesn't mean you really know where they are.
My dear sweetie has a teen girlzilla who screwed up Hawaii for me for about 9-1/2 months (and 3 days). I'd witness something first hand, he'd ask her about it then come to me and say "she says she didn't do that". Discussion over. Parents are so blind to their own children's behavior.
Parents are so blind to their own children's behavior.
Or so incredibly clued in that Junior can't get away with half of the stuff he wants to get away with.
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