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[quote=Anonymous]My child is young. My mom didn't listen to my calls, read my mail, search my room or car and was always available to listen to me vent/complain/whatever without being too judgy. I also did not abuse that trust. I would like to have a similar relationship with my daughter when she is a teenager.

Your daughter sounds like she is having issues related to autonomy, control and privacy. If she is deleting texts, she is hiding something from you. Spying on her will not magically make her share with you. She will just not text about it, or communicate with her friends in a different way.

If the rule is that you can read the text, she may feel like she is adhering to the letter of the agreement by deleting the texts she does not want you to read. It is also possible that she is deleting things not because of what SHE says but because of what she RECEIVES. I confided a ton in my mom, but I would never have shared the details of my friends' struggles, particularly in ways that identified them, because I knew there were things they were going through that my mom would have felt obligated to tell their parents about.[/quote]

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