Analysis Of Harlan Coben's The Undercover Parent

In Harlan Coben 's, The Undercover Parent, Coben claims that it is okay to install spyware in children’s technological devices. He says this because it can prevent children from, “gambling away their entire life savings", or from cyberbullying others “until the point they committed suicide", or even from the situation where there was a “young boy unknowingly conversing with a pedophile” (Coben 66). However, I believe parents do not need spyware to prevent these things from happening. A parent’s job is to be aware of how their children are using technology to inform them of all the dangers that may waiting and to set rules or boundaries.

When children or teenagers are using computers, tablets, and cell phones parents should monitor them. They

Then they should be explaining the consequences that will happen if they are broken. For example, my friend Talia would talk to random people on the internet or through applications on her phone. Just as Coben states, “It is far easier for a predator to troll chat rooms and MySpace and Facebook (Coben 67)” it is true, because one day a pedophile pursued Talia. He was going to go to her neighborhood to meet her for the first time. Feeling afraid, she told her mother, who then called the police. The police investigated and discovered that the man had tried to pursue other girls. A few days later they caught him and put him in

The broken bond that her family has may be due to lack of communication on both sides. This may be because they are from Mexico and in their culture they do not have to worry about those things. Another case may be that her mother does not have the time to engage in such conversations. This is similar to the example Coben uses on page 67; after the parent found out what his daughter was doing, her told her the dangers of those actions. It was too late; the father should have told the daughter the risks of what could happen if she were to venture out into the virtual world of chat rooms from the