With the age of cell phones, adults are still finding ways to have control over teenagers. A way of punishment is taking away cell phone usage. I agree that that is a suitable punishment for some cases. However, snooping through a child's phone is not okay. There are many problems it can cause, such as increased snaeakiness, decreased trust, and overall a weaker relationship between kid and parent.
I can see the argument that a parent payed for the phone and for the internet that the phone uses, but the phone was given to the child for a reason, whether as a gift or for communication. KIds deserve some sort of privacy from everyone. Just like someone needs a door to be private while sleeping or changing. Especially with teens who's only privacy may be the text messages with their friends or the social meadia they have, having someone look through it can be hurtful. There is no way to put laws into place to restrict parents access to children's phones. It is more a matter of ethics and morality. Although not as severe, it has the same tone as parents who decide to or to not spank their kids for misbehaving. If someday I become a parent, I hope to never take my shild's phone and snoop through them.
If you were to be a guardian, what rules would you have pertaining to phones and tech?
Do your parents snoop through your phone? If not, what other ways do they discipline you?
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I personally have never had my parents ask to look through my phone. I feel that they trust my siblings and I to do the right thing and use our cellphone properly. I think that parents should talk with their child before giving them and phone and tell them what is right and wrong. Then they can build trust that way.
I will never look into their phone, but you are free to take it away. Taking a child's phone away would not harm them; in fact, it would encourage them to do something other than play with the stuff on their phone. There are other options for disciplining your kids. I wouldn't even give my child a phone if i didn't trust them.
I wouldn't ever look through their phone but you could still take away the device. Taking away a kids phone wouldn't hurt them if anything it would help to do something else other that interact with the things on their phone. There are other ways you can punish your child.
I have never had my parents look through my phone to see if I was up to something. However, in my opinion, parents should be able to look through their phones to see if we're up to something. Because most teenagers won't tell their parents that they're doing something that they shouldn't be doing. Phones are a very powerful tool, and they can be used more for a bad things than good things.
I personally wouldn't do that because I feel the same way you do about decreases trust and causes the child to be sneaky and I wouldn't want a bad relationship over a phone that might not have needed to be taken away for a certain punishment. My parents don't go through my phone when they take it away, they also don't take it away if it isn't for a good reason.
If I was a parent I wouldn't want to be too intrusive because my parents did a good job not being intrusive to me and allow me to live my life. Not having intrusive parents gave me a lot of freedom because I gained their trust and thats how it should be. Even with intrusive parents the kid is going to see what he/she wants to see on the internet no matter what so being intrusive like that doesn't help.
Once I, along with the rest of our generation, start having kids, we will know better than any generation of parents before us how dangerous phones are because we have experienced it first hand. I don't think that I will ever go snooping through my kids phone because I will respect their privacy, however I will do my best to raise them right and raise them to know right from wrong. My parents never snoop through my stuff, because they know that they can trust me and I have nothing to hide.
I don't think parents should be able to look through phones. I hope in the future I have an honest and open relationship with my kids, just like what I have with my mom now. My parents threaten to take my phone but they would never snoop through it. They also would take away my car previlages as another punsihment.
Personally, I have never had my parents ask to look through my phone. They trust me to choose the right choice. I think trust is a key component when giving a child a cell phone. If I was a parent, I would have a talk with my child before they receive their phone. I would then trust them to do the right thing because they know the consequences if they don't.
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