We know -- there's a lot of reasons to worry about your teens today. They can text faster than you can speak and spend more time on the computer than at the dinner table. Do you think your teen may be getting in trouble or are you just being paranoid? Take our quiz and find out if you should be snooping on your teen!
Hi Tyra, personally I believe that a parent does have rights to know what their children are doing and I've always had a strong relationship with my mother. She doesn't snoop but on the internet, I'm parental controled and they know where i go. i think parents should have frequent talks with their kids to build a trusting relationship because my mom and i do that. i'm 16 and i love my mom to death. i feel like we can tell each other anything. but there is a fine line between snooping and being protective
Wow, I just saw this show and I am a prosuct of a snooping household. I have 4 daughters, and I am sort of conflicted on this as far as what I will be resort to once they reach the age where snooping becomes an issue. I think the doctor on your show hit the nail on the head, it is ok to monitor them not to snoop and I think it a very fine line between the two. Hopefully when I am faced with these situations I will be able to handle my children in a way that will be productive.
hey trya ........ iam 16 and i cant ever talk to my mom about my sex life. i have a boyfriend that i have been dating for 3 years and we have had sex but i never told my mom she always goes through my stuff and she would find things and she always assumes that she knows that im having sex but she dosent now with whoi've never told her that i had a boyfriend she dosent even know that i have been dating.
Hey Tyra, first off I have to say that I love you. You are my biggest role model. As a 15 year-old girl I have to say that I hide a lot of things from my mom. I've never caught her snooping but I have siblings who do. I don't think its right to invade others personal properties. If my mom ever found out something before I was willing to tell her and she confronted me I would lie so it would be better to just wait tell im ready to be honest. I think most teens would agree. If you keep searching for something you may loose us. So just wait til we tell you. How would you feel if you were in our position.
Snoopers, hmmmm. I am a 42 year old male. Yes, this means that my early teens were spent through the decadent 70's and the Mid "ME" 80's, whereas NO ONE was talking about "IT," (BEYOND SONG LYRICS) but a great MANY were doing "IT" behind closed doors. I, as a child not only felt this hidden agenda all around me, but suffered from its "SECRECY." From taboo sexual exploits to freakish drug induced lifestyles, we teens were not only subjected to "IT," but exploited in many ways. Most teens "NEVER TOLD," and therefore, grew into these "snoopers" because they know of "THE (ugly) SECRETS" of Life in America. I have much to say about these things that have never been said in the PUBLIC ARENA, but towards "SNOOPERS," if you hold these "SECRETS" to yourself, your children will FEEL that YOU have somehting to hide, and therefore follow suit, and HIDE TOO. SHAME IS SATANS FRIEND! Take off the FIG LEAF and live freely, talk of your skeletons when you FEEL your children's questions ARISE SILENTLY, so you might share YOUR TRUE SHAME AND BURDEN, and you might just take it OFF THEIR BACKS. ................PEACE
I'm almost 25 years old, and I can honestly say that I wish my mom would have snooped a little. I'm a single mom with three children all 5 and under. I think if my mother had actually taken the iniciative to search through my room I wouldn't have lost my virginity at 14, and got pregnant at 15. My mom never knew about it. I had a miscarriage and it was one of the hardest moments in my life, but because my mom didn't push harder she didn't know until she went with me to the doctor for my oldest sons first appointment when I was 18. It's a new generation and teen girls are doing alot more then they were when our parents were young. I think parents now are either to trusting or to nieve and that is why girls like myself get into the positions we do. Yes, we are at that stage in our lives at 15 that we want our privacy and want to grow up, but at what cost. I can honestly say that I would rather snoop and know exactly what my children are doing as teenagers than have one of them take the same path I did. I'm a high school drop out and have had to do alot to turn my world around to make it better for my children because of the bad choices that I made, but also the choices that my mother should have been there to say no to.
No I don't think parents should snoop around. I'm 20 years old and my dad is still snoop in around on me it just make me push him away. it also makes me not want to tell him the truth about what going on in my life. I go to school and work and pay for everything that is mine the only thing is I live in his house so I don't have a say so about what I can and can't do. He don't want me to move out until I finish school but he's just make want to move out sooner because of his crazy ways.
Your bedroom is a privilege not a right. If you are not paying rent to live in your room, then your parents have every right to go through it. If your parents feel the need to go through your room then you must have done something to ruin their trust. If you have nothing to hide then there should be no reason to throw a tantrum over it. Same goes for your cell phone, unless you are paying the bill YOU do not own it, therefore your parents have every right to look through it. Once your parents keep finding "Nothing" they will stop going through your room/cell. Kids these days get away with everything. You need to earn respect, not demand it.. and that is the same for parents as well. Many of these "problem children" are as a result of how poorly they were raised.
ok i thnk tht snoopin is kinda ok buh 2 a certain limit. its ok maybe to call thm alot, buh to look threw their stuff is a violation of pivacy. i would never go threw my childs stuff. i do call her evry time their out an they no that im jus tryin to protect her. since its jus me an my daughter, she tells me evrythin, an thts y i don't snoop threw her stuff i believe tht no one should do tht, evn if you dnt trust your teen. trackin thm is jus goin wayyy to far. how would yuhh feel if you were bein tracked 24/7. i wuld be pretty mad if my rents did tht to me. if your teen is sneekin out like lilly, its probably just a phase tht ther goin threw. either tht or they feel tht you dnt trust thm. tht wuld either cause thm to not trus you or cause thm to rebel. you have to give them room to be thmselves an you have to show thm tht no matter how bad it is what they tell you, you wnt judge thm because then in a matter of minutes, you hav completely lost their trust.
I think that parent's should have only a certain amout of control on their child. To much snooping on your teen can lead them to think that you don't trust them. Then they will rebel, like Tyra said, because they feel tied up. Even though my parents don't snoop as much as the parents on the show, but I do kow what it feels to be tied up. The teen might not tell you, but they feel violated when you look through their things and when you track them. They feel that, ok maybe they messed up a few times, but you don't have to over do on the snooping. If they feel that you trust them, they will most likely open up to you, and tell what they've been up to.
I think snooping isn't always the answer. OYu can at least try to talk to your child, and if they feel that you trust them, they will eventually open up. If they are hiding things from you, I think that snooping is OK, but to a certain limit. You shouldn't go crazy trying protect your child, because you have to give them space to be themselves.
The world is a dangerous place. Alot more dangerous than when we were kids. To me snooping shows that you are doing everything to make sure this cold world does not get to your kids.
i think there is a limit on snooping. snooping when your child is on the computer yes. there are so many sicos on the computer but to go through ur childs room is not right.
I don't think that parents should "snoop" unless they have a reason to believe their child is doing something they shouldn't. This isn't saying that parents shouldn't be concerned I think they should definitely ask questions, meet parents, get phone numbers, but show some trust in your teen. If you don't you will have no communication or your teen will not have respect for you, they will just fear you. It can also cause them to be distant and once they can be on their own, they won't want you in their life.
look i'm a mom of 2 teens and there's a line bewteen proucting ur kids and just snooping on them
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