You have to strike a balance between being a worried parent, and letting your child experience individual freedom. Parents who go out of their to make sure thei

You have to strike a balance between being a worried parent, and letting your child experience individual freedom. Parents who go out of their to make sure their kids know every single action they make is monitored will absolutely drive a wedge between them. It's not a bad idea to install location monitoring apps, but going as far as reading every communication your child makes to peers or knowing every single website they visit can be crossing the line. Granted this is more of a problem with modern generation teens and children, teens and children born in the early to mid 90s didn't really need this level of restriction. It seems as the new generations come about, the level of irresponsibility and poor decision increase. Kids learn from experience, negative experiences do teach lessons and shape decision making. If you go out of your way to block every potentially negatives interaction a child can have on the internet or amongst friends, they won't know how to deal with those harsh reality situations come time when their parents aren't around to protect them anymore. I'd imagine most of us had experiences as a child/teen where we typed in the wrong URL in the early days of the internet and bam, breasts suddenly all over the screen. That's a learning experience. My experience with this was in the middle of a 6th grade history class, mistyped 1 letter and the teacher about had a heart attack from what popped up. Parent's who block porn websites for their teens for example, why? You know very well that at 13,14,15 your child is going to start getting curious, and outright blocking their access to that content online is only going to make them look for it elsewhere. I'm not saying don't, but casting an iron curtain over their activities and making them feel like they have to constantly look over their shoulder for your monitoring is going to build distrust and disdain. It's all about balance. Older parents that were born in the mid 1900s didn't place many restrictions on their kids because I believe they knew kids had to learn how to experience life for what it had to offer. Modern generation parents who were born just in the late 80s/early90s are getting too heavy handed with moderation and restriction.