June 2, 2006
Parents and kids engage in technological spy game
There's alot written on how parents monitor their children's online activities or have access to real-time knowledge about their children by tracking their whereabout on their cell phones, but this article in Redding News offers interesting insight on how kids deflect their surveillance efforts and how parents at some point, have to make a choise, to give their kids autonomy or keep them under close watch - where tracking might lead to resentment.
... "As parents and children tussle over where to draw the line for privacy, some children say parental intrusion simply forces them to create more-sophisticated ruses to undermine the increased supervision.
... Before cell phones, text messaging, social networking sites and school Web portals, parents simply had to trust that their children were where they said they were, doing what they were supposed to do."
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