Hey Tyra. As a 15 girl, I believe that snooping on your teens is wrong. Sure, there are certain things in my life that I'd rather keep private, but I have a strong enough relationship with my parents that they don't need to snoop. However, if there is something clearly wrong in a childs life that the parents feel the need to snoop, maybe they have more issues than they think. If a parent has a strong enough relationship with their child, there's no need to snoop in the first place. I don't go snooping through my parents bedroom, so it would be a violation of my privacy for them to snoop in mine.

I'm 17 turning 18 in March. && i think these moms are crazy! these parents really don't have a relationship with their parents because this is the way my Father treated me and i can't stand him. but my mother acts more like my friend about things like sex, friends, drugs, etc. and i feel more comfortable talking to her about those things verse me talking to my dad who just yells at me about everything i do. so i wont open up to him like i would to my mother. so i think that parents should lay back on being such an authority until you absolutely have too like they wont talk to you at all or if they are out of control. you can still be the parent and have a firm hand but be nice about those kinds of things not secretive.

I'm a teenager myself and I don't like the idea that parent's snoop on their children,becauz it gets nowhere.on our phones there would be valuable info for parents,but theyu should talk to them about why they did this.Siblings should be able to open up to parents just like me and my sis do with my mom.

Well Im 17, I Would Hate. My Parents Snooping Threw Mai Things, But If Thats What A Parent Has To Do, Then Do It. But I Would Like Them To Tell Me That They're Snooping Threw Mai Things.

First of all let me say I'm 18 and my family knows better than to even think of snooping on me they know I will blow up before they even blink their eyes, snooping on your teens like that somebody should snoop on them and parents always think they are right on everything when they should learn something and listen for once nobody is perfect and preventing teens from mistakes that happen is like preventing life experiences they need in order to over come them and learn from them that mother at the end of the show is horrible and I'm angry that she had the nerve to disrespect her own mom and tell her it wasent love then turn around and think she is right for the way she snoops on her daughters, just because she tells them she loves them isn't building self esteem at all she need some therapy or something because honestly she shouldent have become a mother acting like that how dare her I don't care that is her mother at least she apologized to her own child and regrets what she did to her she should have done the same to her daughters tyra why didn't you make her apologize? instead of letting that poor girl keep her head down and not speak her mind.

im a 14 year old girl thats stays at los angeles....well after seeng the show it sounded like my mom god that feels like you just cant do anything cuz its always rong!!an i cant ever go out....i wish i got that cell phone....lates tyra

I am watching the show right now and I am absolutely disturbed. I'm the same age as the daughters who get snooped on. If my mom did what these moms have done, I would get emancipated right away. That's disgusting how that mother searches her daughters bodies.

Dear Tyra- My mom has not done anything like this before. She trusts me, and always has. I see it as I've never done anything to give her reason to feel threatened, so she always gives me benefit of the doubt for my behavior. I really appreciate her as a person, aside from being a mom. Having never experienced snooping, I must say I prefer my life to stay that way. She can still love me while providing me the space and independence to grow as my own person, and I don't think anything less of her parenting skills because of her overt trust.

Hi Tyra Am a big fan i love your show and i try to watch it as much as i can.Today i identify so much with your guest am a teen 18 and my mom snoops on me like crazy ever since i was 15 it was crazy because back then i was so ignorant i was in high school but boys and parties were not important to me and she would still snoop thru my things. Know that i am 18 she has led me to do many things that i never thought that i could of done but it seem so easy for me to do it because since she was already accusing me i was like why not?So parties and boys,bottles,smoking and sneaking out was my newest habits but i have stop because i see that the stuff i did or i do still is not on my best intrest but one thing i do know is i dont think my mom is all to blame but she does have alot of influence.I feel bad but it has made grown as a person and as a strong young woman to do what i want in life and help teens see that life is alot more then partie life and let them see that life is so much more then that.

If I have to snoop on my man then he is removed from my life. If I can't trust him, or he makes me feel he could be cheating, then there is no future in the relationship. When they ask why I'm dumping them, then almost ALWAYS prove they are not cheating if they aren't and I don't have to snoop. I always tell them that I don't need to see the thief rob my house to know it was robbed. That's when any decent man proves he is on the up and up and the bad men realize they've met their match and move on to victims who have to snoop.

Hey Tyra! Well i think that "monitoring" is totally acceptable to do. Just let your kids know thats whats going on! And if they don't have anything to hide it won't bother them. What I do with my kids, and I have gotten alot of my friends to do this with theirs as well, is, I have a "parent check-up" once a month. Here are the rules: 1. My girls know that once a month Mom or Dad are going to go to the place that they told us they are at. But only once a month! 2. They don't know which day of the month it will be. 3. If they are not where they say they are, they loose something and they're curfew goes back down to when it gets dark, hehe. My girls are 16 and 17 now, my youngest daughter has not passed her "parent check-up," therefore her curfew was reduced from 10 on the weekends and 6 on the weekdays (which she earned from passing parent check-ups) to 5 on weekends and she must come home straight from school on weekdays. My 17 year old on the other hand, has passed every "parent check-up" and has increased her curfew to 11:30 on weekends. It increases by 30 min tim blocks each time, the limit being 11:30 of course. And on the weekdays, her curfew is 6, just in time for dinner. It works extremely well for our family and many others as well. Of course my youngest doesn't like us too much sometimes, because we "ruined her life," but else is new at that age, she's over it in a week. And after a week, depending on the circumstances of where she was in her failing "parent check-up" she can start to increase her curfew

If I may add my personal opinion as did everybody else. I do not agree that snooping is the 'appropriate' thing to do. Whether it be in a relationship between a parent/child or a relationship with a significant other. Snooping is a way of showing one's insecurity and trust issues. Once that trust boundary is crossed, it in most cases is extremely hard to get back. With that being said, why be put in a position where you can potentially lose a loved one just because of your insecurity and curiousity? I understand a parents want/need to protect their child, but snooping is DEFINITELY not the way of going about the situation. Think of it this way, don't do to others what you wouldn't want done in return.

hey this is devon i am 14 years old, and what's funny is i actually watched your show today... haha, anyway it caught my attention because i have friends who have parents who snoop and they seem to always be getting in trouble and they are a completely different person at school than they are at home, they tend to cuss alot, and disrespect authority figures. my mother and step father don't ever snoop on me, and lately i have been a good kid. when i lived with my father he was more controlling abusive and in my life and that's when i acted out i actually got arrested and i was just plain stupid how about that? anyway it seems that kids whose parents are trusting are more likely to not want to do the stupid things, unless of coarse the parents don't talk to them about things as well, like i have noticed the parents who make sex out to be some hush-hush voodoo thing end up going and havings sex, although i have had chances with girls to have sex, i am yet to because my mother is open about it with me and talks to me about it, and i am also religious as well, so sex before marriage isn't something i wanna do. but you know... anyway the thing is i know if i go do it they won't be hating me, so that makes me feel good, but i know that they might be disappointed so that's also a reason i haven't yet, anyway sorry to leave such a long comment but you know i am familiar with this subject and i feel bad for the kids who have to go everyday feeling untrusted and unloved, anyway im done. P.S. your beautiful tyra!!!

Hi Tyra i think it's not right to snoop. Montoring if need but snoop NO!! Im 15 and me and my mom have a nice relationship. If the parent and child have a open relationship there's no need to snoop. I like to snoop because its fun on my brothers, but to snoop to hurt someone is wrong and the person who is snooping I think looses RESPECT!! Because the child won't confide in the parent. Kids need a place to vent and to break that privacy act is wrong now matter what the kid has done. I my opinion a parent should be 50% parent and 50% friend. It needs to be equal.I think the 1st mom really needs help, the 2nd mom i understand , and the 3rd mom is using the bad as an excuse.

Hi tyra. My name is Aubrey marino and I just want to say it's completly wrong to snoop through your kids things. I am only 12 but my friends and family think I act like a 17 year old. Besides the piont, my mother and father respect me and my space. What they always say "we give u enough rope to hang yourself". the reason I'm given the privilidge of freedom is because I haven't lost their trust, plus they know it's never the right thing to always hover over your child. It could cause them to rebel and even get into ALOT of trouble. My piont is really it's never good to snoop and it's always good to show ur child u care and trust them.