The majority of parents love their children and would do anything to keep them safe. The relationship between a parent and child is typically one of love, a balance of nurturing and protectiveness. However, as people grow, they change, and so do the relationships that they have. Who a person grows up to be is not who they were as a child. The way a person is treated changes as they grow, learn, and experience the world around them. Placing spyware on your kids device creates an unbalance in the special parent-child relationship and interrupts the childhood of kids growing up. The trust and privacy of a child is violated when parents spy on their online activity, and it is wrong for parents to do so.
Harlan Coben, author of many mystery stories
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Teenagers are to complete incredible amounts of homework daily, study a lot, join extracurricular activities, get good grades, worry about college, get a job, work hard for a good life and deal with everything else life throws at them. Lee Tien, a father of 2 children in their twenties, in AUTHOR, WEBSITE, DATE understands the pressure associated with being a young adult and says that “It’s really hard for me as a parent to who has been trying to be rational and understanding would do that (spy on their kids online activity)” and that his approach to parenting is to treat kids like they are mature before they are adults (NEED PAGE). Mr. Tiens approach to parenting shows that adolescents today are expected to act like adults, and therefore should be treated like them as well. Additionally, the Internet is a place of entertainment and amusement for adolescents, a place where they can connect with friends and relax. Imagine your teenagers reaction when they find out you’ve been going behind their back and stalking what they do online. Imagine the heartbreak and sadness at your intrusive actions, them believing that their parents don’t trust them to make smart decisions, the right ones. Realize that your kids will see your snooping as a sign of disrespect, dishonesty, and an invasion of privacy. What parent would deliberately make their kids feel that