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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No offense. I get that you punish them. They lied.

But as a middle school teacher, every teen has snap. All of them. They use their friends phones in school. They use web browsers. They use old phones/iPads lying around the house or they secretly download and hide it on their own phone. As soon as an account gets deleted they create a new one with a friend. I hear it all day long.

Teens no longer text. They snap. Their texts are thru snap. They send pics thru snap. They really only communicate thru snap. It isn’t to hide things, at least for most kids.  It’s just that this is how they communicate. And kids this age hate feeling left out.

I have a snap account so I can understand my students and my two own teens. I don’t follow my two, but I have both their log ins and I can log in any time.  I rarely do. We talk extensively about the 3 p’s. Parents, principal, and police. And how phone calls are your safest bet. Even FT can be video recorded. Anyway, I would have loved Snap as a teen and I find it entertaining now. I was surprised how many adults are on it.

Eventually you are going to have to allow it, so you might as well start learning about it on your own. Just not from what other helicopter parents mom say/fear.  Learn for yourself. [/quote]

This is what someone else told you on the first page.

I think the parents who are convinced their teens never lie to them are just delusional.  Your kid is just good at lying.   There is also a lot of lying by omission, which is a trickier thing to think about and deal with.  I say this not from a point of view of we should all just give up, but it's important to have the mindset of trust but verify, think though the angles always, and understand that IT IS NORMAL when your teenager does not treat you like their bestie and tell you everything and tries to push boundaries.  [/quote]

Do these people think they have alien children? Humans lie![/quote]

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