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[quote=Anonymous]I think these responses are so interesting.  My DD is on the younger side, 13, and got a phone this year.  Yes, I look through all of it a few times a week and she knows this.  I ask her for her phone and she hands it over. I also recognize that things that happen on the internet have a special and new kind of risk, and as parents we have to be careful.

However, I am only looking to monitor the appropriateness of her posts, texts until whenever it is that I am certain that she has the right habits.  I am not looking to gain information on her life, as it appears that many people are. That seems like a bridge too far to me, especially for an older teen.  The PP who mentioned no expectation of privacy on a work phone got me thinking about it.  Would you as a parent ever assert he right to listen in on all phone conversations because you own the phone and the phone line?  Would you read a diary?  Would you lurk around in person conversations she/he was having?  How is reviewing texts different from that?  Maybe some of you would.  I just think that motivation is not tied to the dangers of the internet, it is just an easy way to "snoop" that parents in previous generations couldn't do, or wouldn't do..[/quote]

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