If there was a cellphone that would monitor your child’s every movement and conversations would you get them 1?

11 responses so far ↓

• 1 robbiethebassist // Oct 1, 2008

  No. Everyone needs their privacy.

• 2 discord71 // Oct 1, 2008

  No, I wouldn’t. Part of teaching your children is to trust them that they apply what you’ve taught them.

• 3 lulzifer // Oct 1, 2008

  no. big brother anyone?
  the knowledge and feeling of being watched all the time is not good for the child’s development. everyone needs his/her secrets and privacy.

• 4 Super Nintendo Chalmers // Oct 1, 2008

  No, I’d rather not stoop to that level of passive-aggressive parenting.

• 5 RedQueen // Oct 1, 2008

  Absolutely not.

  I respect my children , and feel they have every right to enjoy their privacy. So far, they’ve never done anything that would make me not trust them.

  If, for some reason, they would act in a manner that would cause them to lose my trust, then I would look at other ways of teaching them proper behavior without resorting to spying.

  Only an insecure parent would stoop to using such a device.

• 6 ʌ_ʍ ʍr.smile fermented // Oct 1, 2008

  if my parents got me one, i’d turn it off when i don’t want to be tracked.

• 7 THE MIGHTY RA // Oct 1, 2008

  Of course not, thats ridiculous, I used to go out and play all day long and come home at tea time, the chance of my kid being taken by a "stranger" is the same as what it was in the 1950's (long before I was a child I might add) Kids who have over protective, hysterical parents are usually useless.

• 8 xcarlymeganx // Oct 1, 2008

  deffinatly not

• 9 Muhammed Asif // Oct 1, 2008

  I certainly think I would not have to resort to such extreme measures, even if we assume such a thing is available in the coming decades when I might be a parent.

  Its not just a question of privacy, its also about trust….. If I am able to instill the kind of values and principles like my own parents did to my children, I think there’s not a lot of reasons to worry….

• 10 Chances68 // Oct 1, 2008

  Oh Gods, no!

  First, I’d have a headache within the first half hour of listening to the gossip column my daughter sometimes calls her life.

  Secondly, kids require some degree of privacy to grow up and become independent. I trust my kids to behave themselves most of the time, and to avoid doing anything dangerous or stupid all the time. I’ve done a good job of raising them, I think, and it’s time now to let them test their wings. Even my ten year old is smart and mature enough that I’d not want to infringe on her experimentation in independence. Besides, she’s Daddy’s girl, and she doesn’t hide anything from Dad. She doesn’t have to, because she knows she has me wrapped around her little finger.

• 11 Loren is just plain Borin // Oct 1, 2008

  Yes, but I would tell them first.

  That way they would know, and there are no secrets, and I would not feel the need to monitor them since they wouldn’t do anything worth monitoring anyways.

  That way, if I did happen to get on to monitor them one day, they would know about it, and if I did find that they were somewhere they were not supposed to be, or doing something over the phone they were not supposed to be doing (naked pics for example), I could get mad at them without “invading” their privacy since they were the ones dumb enough to do it even though I told them I was monitoring.

  I do believe that there should be personal space, and I wouldn’t search my child’s room unless I suspected they were harboring heroine or something. But I think that if I buy them a phone and pay for their service, I do have a little say in what they are doing with it.

  when they buy their own phone, and pay their own service, that is when they can have the privacy. houses are family domain though, and each person “owns” their part of it.

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