Coben, the author of “The Undercover Parent,” believes that parents should put spyware on their children’s computers to protect them from the dangers of the internet. Spyware is software that you can download onto any computer that allows you to to monitor everything that your child is doing on that computer. I agree with Coben that parents should monitor their children’s internet use; however, I don’t agree that they should use spyware to do so because it is an invasion of privacy. Parents should monitor their children’s internet use by occasionally checking to see what they are doing online. By monitoring their internet use this way, the children will still have privacy, but their parents still know what they are doing online. If their
