June 9, 2008
Spying on the Text Generation
When it comes to watching over their tech-obsessed teenagers, parents are learning the dangers of too much information. An eight page article from the Boston Globe.
Excerpts
... "Involved parents who undertook limited monitoring for the right reasons found that, in their hunt for reassurance that their teenager was not engaging in dangerously bad behavior, they were instead worn down by the little disappointments - the occasional use of profanities or mean-spirited name-calling - as well as the mind-numbing banality of so much teen talk. Moreover, these parents came to the conclusion that it would be impossible for them not to think less of their kids if they continued to listen in, and that would be unfair, because their own parents never had transcripts of their teen conversations and were no worse for not knowing."
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