How can iPhone parental controls help monitor your teen’s cyber life ?

[Edge]

What does your teen post online? What do they share? Who do they talk to? What applications they use? Are they addicted to their cell phones? If you know the answer to all these questions, then great, but if you don’t; you most definitely want to know! Have you ever thought to yourself; ‘is my teen safe online?’ The seemingly harmless device in their hands is a gateway to another world: the cyber world – the fascinating world of communication which is home of online predators, cyber bullying, inappropriate content and sexting.

How sure are you that your teen is safe from all of these? Not much probably. If you’re thinking about taking their phones away or checking them behind their backs. Stop now! Sit back in your chair, relax and read below as a new world of parenting is about to be unfolded. Your parents might tell you to raise our teens the same way they raised you. But deep down you know that those old-school ways are a waste on your teens. You can’t take their phone away, they (in most cases) won’t give you their passwords, and don’t even consider spying on them. Why? Because if they catch you doing this or find out about it any other way; they will feel hurt and mistrusted. Not to mention an invasion of privacy. One wrong move and suddenly you’re the bad guy!

 

[Thomasss]

I'll be 100% honest and say sometimes I have to worry about what my parents do online. 😛 I think I know more about the internet than most of my family, so it's kind of funny when they are reluctant to do something online because they don't know what happens if they do.

Spinning off of that, I think teenagers nowadays are too trusting online, either that or the parents are too over protective because they don't know what their child is really doing. There just has to be a level of knowledge and understanding between the kid and the parent, if you are 13 or 14 and you are on the internet, and I was the parent, I would probably monitor you just to make sure you know what you're doing, but that comes with my knowledge of the internet and how many creepy people roam free in this large fibre connected jungle. It all comes down on what the kid knows and what the parent knows, that's really what it comes down too IMO.

And if they are doing illegal stuff on the internet, they should not be using it. :lol: If kids take advantage of the internet then parents have every right to snoop, and it doesn't have to do with just iPhones. 😛

Us teens are going to be teens, ya'll probably would have done the same if you were a teenager. If you know they know the risks, let them be.

And if they are going to be morons on the internet, there are more than enough smart people on there to whack your kid some embarrassment. If you sign up on a site that your kid is on you could spy on them as well and they won't ever know. 😛