Monday, May 6, 2013

Text Message Monitoring on Cell Phones


Should parents start text message monitoring on their kid’s cell phones?  How can parents keep their children safe in the digital age? When parents start asking themselves these questions, they are becoming aware of the online dangers children are faced with growing up in the digital age and how important it is to monitor kid’s cell phones. Text message monitoring is not an invasion of their privacy or a sign of mistrustfulness. If your tween was lucky enough to get a smartphone for promotion, it is critical that parents play a vital role ensuring online safety for their tween.

Parental monitoring of kids’ smartphones goes along with the responsibility of giving your tween a smartphone. Parents need to be engaged and learn about what tweens can access and do with smartphones.  Maybe it is sitting down with your tween once a week and view all the text messages and online games your tween has participated in. If this seems overwhelming, try a mobile parental control application such as My Mobile Watchdog.  The point is, if you want your kids to be involved in all the wireless technology, then as a parent you need to talk about the right way to use a cell phone combined with mobile parental controls in the digital age.  

How many parents talk to your kids about their text messages?

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