Spying On Your Kids

by rocketman 34 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  happyout

  As a parent, I reserve the right to do whatever I think is in my child's best interest. That will definitely mean monitoring ALL internet access, and my son will NOT have a computer in his room. He will have one in a central location where anyone can walk by and see what's on the screen. This is a recommendation from law enforcement, and one I am happy to follow. I doubt I would ever install a camera in my home, definitely not in his room, he gets dressed in there, and that leads to too many privacy issues. However, I would have no problem going in his room and looking around if something caught my attention, or if I felt there was something going on I needed to investigage. On average, I do think children have too many liberties, and I think that it has been a huge detriment on our society. As Yeru stated earlier, if the Columbine children's parents had been more active in looking in their children's rooms, a tragedy could have been avoided. And believe me, parents frequently think their kids are "normal" when in actuality they are into alcohol, drugs, and worse. I am my son's mom first and foremost, and I will do that job to the best of my ability, even if it sometimes makes me unpopular.

  Happyout
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  Tyler

  Kids in this day and age needs to be kept an eye on in any way possible. When they reach the "rebel" age of a teenager, they will test the authority of the parents as well as society as a whole to see how much they can get away with. Kids at the teenage level will want to exert their "independence" and feel "adult" to make decisions for themselves, but often times, kids can tend to carry on too far. At times kids will get sick of the authority of the parents and rebel against them, even if possible, to the extreme.

  Yizman,

  You condone surpressing this "independance" with all you've got? I don't agree with pairent's getting into trouble for saying no to their kids, but come on! (My first thought when I read that was it must be an exageration, but then again, after seeing some of your US tv like Richi Lake etc, I thought maybe not)

  By your theory every teenager suddenly becomes a vandal, theif, bank robber, rapist, and a murderer!

  Please!!! I feel like I'm reading the Watchtower reading some of the comments on this thread! A big hand ought to come down from the sky and give some of you a big slap across the face!

  Some kids need extra attention, but not all. Some pairents need watching. Hey, is one of you guys Carrie's mother? Have any of you heard of child abuse? It's not always done by dirty old men in big coats, it's done by pairents who have got it in their heads that they should surpress any sign of independance in their children. I bet some of you white Texans fear the day when your kids grow up and start erroniously thinking to themselfs that ther is nothing wrong with black people!! Gee Wiz! We want to keep an eye out for that!!
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  Yizuman

  Some kids need extra attention, but not all. Some pairents need watching. Hey, is one of you guys Carrie's mother? Have any of you heard of child abuse? It's not always done by dirty old men in big coats, it's done by pairents who have got it in their heads that they should surpress any sign of independance in their children. I bet some of you white Texans fear the day when your kids grow up and start erroniously thinking to themselfs that ther is nothing wrong with black people!! Gee Wiz! We want to keep an eye out for that!!

  Typical Liberal going overboard and stretch things a bit too much with exaggeration.

  I'm not saying we should be hard core 24/7 with the kids. There are and should be set of rules of how we should monitor our kids.

  But some kids wants 0% monitoring and do whatever they want w/o being told, "NO!".

  There's rules that needs to be made to curb misbehavior and we need to monitor them to make sure the rules are being complied.

  Obviously the Columbia kids wasn't being monitored well enough by the parents and to state they didn't know they were making bombs and hiding and using automatic weapons for practice is not an excuse. Had they checked their rooms, this disaster might have been adverted.

  Are you saying that a 13 year old daughter's room shouldn't be checked for drugs or possibly a boyfriend hiding the closet so the b/f can have sex with your daughter and possibly get her pregnant?

  Yizuman
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  SheilaM

  Columbia

  Columbine Yiz Columbine Colorado.

  That is why I think if your a good parent from the get go you don't have children sneaking out or sneaking people in.
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  Yizuman

  Columbia

  Columbine Yiz Columbine Colorado.

  That is why I think if your a good parent from the get go you don't have children sneaking out or sneaking people in.

  DOH!! Thanks for the correction. Dang brain of mine! Yes very true, that would be a very good parenting... Yizuman
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  Tyler

  Typical Liberal going overboard and stretch things a bit too much with exaggeration.

  Excuse me? You are claiming that I have gone overboard and streched things a bit too much with exaggeration!!? I am almost too shocked that YOU have the nerve to say that about me after your posts.

  Let's compair what you have said:

  I'm not saying we should be hard core 24/7 with the kids

  With:

  Kids in this day and age needs to be kept an eye on in any way possible. When they reach the "rebel" age of a teenager, they will test the authority of the parents as well as society as a whole to see how much they can get away with.

  Is this the same person posting in this name? Any way does not exclude intrusive and intimidating methods. Your post was unballenced.

  Also in your previous post you said:

  Kids at the teenage level will want to exert their "independence" and feel "adult" to make decisions for themselves, but often times, kids can tend to carry on too far. At times kids will get sick of the authority of the parents and rebel against them, even if possible, to the extreme.

  This smacks of Watchtower paranoiaism. I shan't repeat what I said in my previous post. But frankly your sentiments stink.

  Finally in your last post you said:

  Obviously the Columbia kids wasn't being monitored well enough by the parents and to state they didn't know they were making bombs and hiding and using automatic weapons for practice is not an excuse. Had they checked their rooms, this disaster might have been adverted.

  Are you saying that a 13 year old daughter's room shouldn't be checked for drugs or possibly a boyfriend hiding the closet so the b/f can have sex with your daughter and possibly get her pregnant?

  Yizuman

  Sorry, what was it you said about "going overboard and stretch things a bit too much with exaggeration"? Are you an elder by any chance? Where did I say that Kids need no discipline? I didn't. But your examples are extreem and do not reflect the general mentality of kids. You are a hypacrite Yizman.
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  Yizuman

  Like I said, "Liberal", your liberal rantings makes no sense, so I have no way of addressing what makes sense other than the fact you're trying to go into the opposite direction of what was a JW mindset to the anti-JW mindset.

  Not everything about parenting is all that bad, just use some good old fashion common sense.

  Yizuman
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  Tyler

  Yea? Well at least I have the sense to refute your words with reasons and reasoning, rather than paint you with a predjudicial 'label'. What the hell is a 'Liberal' anyway? If it's the other party to George W Bush I'll consider it a compliment.
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  Yizuman

  Tyler,

  Were you having a very bad falling out with your parents?

  Just curious...

  Yizuman
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  WildHorses

  I don't believe in spying on my kids. Besides, I wouldn't have to even if I wanted to. Everything they do seems to get back to me. We have nosey neighbors.