Parents Monitoring Children

In the article the author talks about what parents should be doing to monitor their children while they are online. The age group that is focused on the most is teenagers and there are a few different examples that are used to show what parents can do to monitor what their children are doing on social media. One thing that this article touched upon that was also in our text was that families are a system of peer culture. The textbook mentions that families do not live in isolation but they having connections with other groups. When teens use social media this is a form of peer culture, so when parents monitor or limit this activity it can have an effect on the way a child develops social skills with others peers. For example if a child is held back from doing something online like engaging in conversation with friends through social media, their first instinct in real life may be to not engage in conversation when in person. Another section of the textbook that this article relates to is that certain people in a family have more power authority than others do. Parents really have …show more content…
The only way that this can happen is if parents sit down and just talk with them. They can let them know that they have trust in them and that they have to be safe and responsible when using the Internet. This will allow for the a better relationship between parent and child also get the children ready to be on their own because there will come a day where parents are not able to watch over their children on the Internet all of the time. Parents need to find a balance between keep tabs on their teen but also letting them do their own thing when it comes to the internet. They have every right to check up on them, but if it becomes to be too much their own children may grow to resent them for it. This article provides good insight about how that balance can be