Should Parents Be Allowed?

Parents need to trust their kids more instead of hovering over them and watching their every move on the net. That tells the kid that they don't trust them and think they'll do bad things no matter what. That's not the message I'd want to send to my future children.

Thats another thing. If one of us kids KNOW our parents are watchingus? would we say this shit?

but im actually not a bad kid.. im just saying

You don't have to be a bad kid to make a bad decision.

I think 13 and younger, maybe, depending on how your child usually behaves... I mean, it's all about trust really. But 14 and older? When they're basically young adults? I think at that age it's kind of wrong to go snooping around what they do.

Checking someone else's email is WRONG no matter what age though, I think.

This is what you all apparently don't understand... I am not snooping around when I check up on them, they are aware I am doing it. If they don't give me reason to believe I need to check their e-mail, I don't.
They don't seem to mind when I do.

When you become parents & have teenagers having cyber sex & planning to meet strangers 8 years older than them & YOU are the one worrying about your child's safety.... tell me it's wrong then.

Tammy: I have a feeling you're talking to a brick wall.

JJ- I think you're right.

I'll just keep doing what I KNOW is right

you need to inform your kids about the interenet and about the petafiles and stuff like that. if you talk to them about it they should be educated enough to be safe so you dont have to invade their privacy

Tammy, I get what you're saying and maybe your kids are different if they know you're looking checking their history and don't care. If it's fine with them, then that's ok. No problem.

But I know that when I was younger, it annoyed me. Not so much because I was doing something wrong but, because I felt like my parents didn't trust me. They stopped when I was about 11 though.