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!


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Im a 19 year old girl am married and verry happy but wasnt always that way. i had a mother who constantly snooped on me wile i was living at home. I know now that she did it because of the mistakes that my older sister did wile she was a teen. but what my mom did didnt keep me safe it only made me lash out more. it got to the point that my mother and i were fighting constantly. i was skeaking out having sex lieing drinking smoking all of the things she was trying to prevent and i did it because of my mother. do to the snooping i figured "why not" she thought i was doing it so why not do it. im happy now and no longer act as i use to. and my mother and i are very close now. but i learned that snooping does not help to stop or prevent a problem tust and comunication does be patient and understanding dont push to hard.
 
silj3e hi! hooli?
 
YOU WILL REAP WHAT U SEW!! aslong as u keep them cornered in when they do get loose just that one tme they will run wild and forget about anything you've said and may even think as if they might as well do whatever cuz you'll never let them out like that again. trust me im 19 years old im still growing but for the most part ive been there and moved out when i was 15 years old. til this day i regret alot. please just give them there space, god will not put to much on you that u can't bear. allow them to make there mistakes so that they can learn from them. as a teenager we're still goen thru little phases in life that we're actually embaressed to admit. even if they were to be doing things... as far as losing there virginity or kissing you CAN NOT STOP IT! yes u can be upset and when she comes home from work or school u can shut her in all u want but highschool girls are having sex in hallways, bathrooms, classrooms i mean have u seen the MAURY SHOW LATELY! in stead of being over protective teach them t be young respective ladies. teach them whats right don't ecknowledge the negative things about every little thing cuz at a point in time peple get tired of bullshit and then they run away and don't give a damn about the YDC they'll be goen to when they return home and then you'll really be worried so be careful what u ask for becuz u just may get it 3 times worst!
 
if u think that what these mothers do. my daddy went as far as one day me and some of my friends where outside and there was some boys out there well my daddy hid under his truck and watched me.i didnt do anything wrong but he said that he knew what was on boys minds. i am the mother of a little girl im not saying that i wont snoop but i feel that u have time to teach your kids tha dirrerence between whats right and whats wrong. you cant protect them from everything.
 
Im fourteen and I watched the show where the parents were snooping. First off i think if you are going to snoop the least the parent can do is inform their teens about the snooping. I also think that if your snooping involves gadgets and body searches thats WAYY TO FARR.! Like foreal. I saw the two girls that didnt give their mom any reason to snoop on them and she was really extreme with her snooping "methods" and that made me feel sorry for the girls because eventually that gets more and more annoying and that makes us teens want to go and do something to give you a reason to snoop..its sad but true. My point: if you snoop you have no trust & thats fine if your teen has given you a reason not to trust them but if they havent then no need.
 
BsB1p4 hi! hooli?
 
BefHe9 hi! hooli?
 
Rember your the parent, not there friend act like it, if it means they hate you for a while ,>>. there phical metal, speritial and EMOCIONAL well being is your responcability, there are no do overs so no regreats . so move along
 
I would snoop, but not to that degree of the mother. i would rig the compters and phones to keep tabs on what my child typed, looked at, what they said, and where they went on line or realtiy. now i'd look over every thing every once in a while and if it looked kosher no harm no faoul. but if they are doing stuff they know is wrong , illeal or emoral even SIN full then i;m bring them down. no if and's of buts note: this includs meeting pedifiler, sending bad pics, cyber bulling or any thing dum , note: i would not pretend to be them of change there, page unless i'm bringing it down, (they would know the soft where is there )
 
a35SAX hi! hooli?
 
snooping on your kids is so bad. if you have a good enough reason to snoop then fine. i think snooping can wreak a relationship. i'm 16 yrs old and i have a great relationship with my mom. i'm also the baby and the only girl so plays a part in it. i'm actually very very lucky that my parents trust as me much as they do since my oldest brother (and the other two only they weren't as bad) did alot in highschool that would have gotten him and did get him in trouble. i haven't given my parents a reason to snoop. they respect my privatcy. as long as they know where i am and who im with it's fine. So parents who think they need to snoop on their teens just need to stop because one it'll make their teen do bad things even more and two your going to lose all the trust that you have with them.
 
I was snooped on as a teen by my mother, but I had it coming. I got into a lot of trouble, was skipping school, sneaking out and doing drugs, but I was always honest with her about these things. But dispite all that I still felt very violated and I felt I couldn't trust her anymore. That's when she became my "enemy". Then, when I got older and got my life straightened out, she still snooped! I believe children should have some rights to a certain level of privacy, but if you don't trust your kid, don't let them on the internet, don't give them a cell phone. That should cut down some of the worries. But that one mother took it way too far, and it was obvious she REALLY enjoyed it. Maybe instead of violating her kids like that she should look into becoming a private investigator?
 
I am a mother of three girls and I think snooping only damages a relationship with your children. If you are staying involved, having regular check-ins and have a relationship with your children, then most of the time they will come to you when they are in trouble. Most parents don't start a relationship with their children until they are teens and then have not other avenue but to snoop in order to find out what's going on in their teen's life. ;-( Parents we've got to do better!
 
Dear tyra, i think that parents shouldnt go to the extreme of going through their kids things.. thats not right
 
I know how these girls feel because my dad does the same. He does not go as far as the moms on your show but i feel teenagers need privacy too.he followed me to school thinking i was going to go somewhere other than school. Thats EXTREME



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