Parental Snooping
- Aug 26
- 2009
Editor’s Web Note: Parental snooping: When is it okay, when is it not? As usual, the panel responses are spot-on, including empathy for parents misled by the media to think kids are in constant peril and in need of surveillance.
Such great young people! Each one ordinary and extraordinary. It’s an ongoing privilege to work with them. —Lauren
DEAR STRAIGHT TALK: We have two wonderful teenage daughters who give us few problems. However, their email and cell phone accounts are in our names and without their knowledge, we routinely check their messages. Our youngest, age 16, has a friend from a good family who has been texting her…