Marie Holmes is the parenting reporter at HuffPost. Her work has appeared in Scary Mommy, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post and other publications. She lives with her wife and their two children in New York City.
If you have a child who’s learned how to speak, it’s only a matter of time before they ask for their own cellphone. A smartphone, and the virtual existence it allows kids to construct and maintain, has replaced a driver’s license as the ultimate ticket to independence.
She also points out that most kids don’t experience the internet for the first time when they’re handed their own phone. Most have lots of practice using their parents’ devices or their own tablets to play games and send messages. Even if you were committed to staying on top of every new bit of slang and updating your monitoring apps, there’s no way you could catch every instance of your teen messaging about something potentially dangerous.Unlike when they’re little and in the pool, you can’t literally keep your eyes on them at all times online — or in real life, for that matter.
“Kids really resent” parents monitoring everything they say , Heitner said, adding that it “doesn’t give you what you think it is going to yield in terms of understanding what’s going on with your kids.” What apps do they use most? Do they post or just look? What kinds of posts do they like to see, and why? Are they in any group texts? What’s useful about these?
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