Article Summary: Should You Spy On Your Kids?

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In the article “Should You Spy on Your Kids?” talks about parents using apps and other media sites. To locate their children and to see what sites they are looking up on their phones. I believe that this in a good idea for parents to do this. But it real should me an age limit I think that parents should keep tabs on their kids from ages 12-17. Parents should also teach them what will be the outcome on the things that their kids look up. I do think it’s a good idea for parents to do this because. Their child could get kid napped or maybe even get in to an ascendant coming or going some were. In the article it states “ A Pew Research Center survey of adults with children 13 to 17 years old published this year found that 61 percent of parents checked the websites that their …show more content…
It’s about time that you stop watching their every move and let them learn how to be an adult on their own. If they need help with something that they did help just don’t leave them all alone. I have been left on my own may times and it’s vary heard for a 16 or maybe a 15-year-old to try and do things on their own. I have been in foster care since I was 12 and I’m still in the system, and I will tell you it is hard for someone to grow up and become an adult when you have to move around a lot. Here is just a little piece of my life and how hard it is not to have anyone there. So in conclusion it is a good idea for parents to know were there child is at all times up until a current age. I will advise you as a parent to use only one app or locater just to see were your child is, yes only one. Because they need to grow up and see how the world works and how people really are in life, not everyone is nice and or caring for each other. Please try not to be the over baring parent nobody wants those type of parents trust me I had one and I didn’t like

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