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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Still wondering how parents think they are checking on their kids phones.

If you are just reading old text messages, you know they can delete individual messages right, and clean up a convo thread and delete pictures or hide the pics in a private folder you couldn't access or save the pics offline on a SD card or flash drive. [/quote]

Ok, don’t worry about it. The entire world is your 12 year old’s oyster. Sounds like a solid plan. 12 year olds have great decision making skills and need no guidance ever. [/quote]

Guidance is different from being a creeper. [/quote]

Guidance is easier and more concrete with actual examples. “Don’t cyber bully” is generic. “Hey, I saw that your friend X was sharing a really unflattering picture of Y and people in the group chat were laughing about it. That’s not ok.” Is much more clear for a kid.

I don’t look at my 15 year old’s texts etc but she knows we could. I’m very open about the possibility. For my 12 year old, we talk about it openly. If she wants 100% privacy, she should get on the phone. I’m still parenting my kids and I’m not sure what your role is with yours re: phones except to pay for them. I imagine your kids are the ones texting mine at 2am on school nights. Anyway, whatever works for you. [/quote]

+1  This.  My teen is in a group chat with a bunch of neighborhood boy classmates and one of the boys (not my kid) was posting content that was homophobic and offensive to people with disabilities.  We talked to our kid about that--why it was wrong, how it could hurt people's feelings and how my kid could also get into trouble by being part of the chat with that content circulating around, even if he wasn't the one sending it himself.  My kid knows he has no expectation of privacy on his phone, and we've also discussed extensively that if we can see the content being shared, likely that may other people can too. [/quote]

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