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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you were growing up, did you think it was appropriate for your mother to secretly pick up the phone in the kitchen and listen into your conversations with your friends on the phone in their bedroom?  How about reading your diary?  How about putting her ear to the basement door while you're with your friends?

Today's standards should be no different.

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That’s BS.[b] It’s SO different today. My kids interact online with people that I have never met, in some cases my kids themselves have only met them briefly or a long time ago and they now have an online “friendship.” Also phone calls were usually just conversations. Now the kids are exchanging photos and videos and all the other garbage that’s available on the internet.[/b] [/quote]

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The pace of everything is so different now than it was back then. Years ago you had to catch your friends on the phone or hang out with them but now everything is instantaneous and things develp so much faster. This absolutely leads to a different dynamic and now there is more chances for problems to arise quickly.

I think a parent is being foolish to think that the same "rules" apply now that applied when we were kids. The world back then does not compare at all to what is our kids' reality today.[/quote]

Agree with this.

Social media makes things so much different now than when we were kids.  I don’t listen in on my kids’ phone conversations, but do check the phone.  [/quote]

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