Analyzing Harlan Coben's Article The Undercover Parent

Harlan Coben in a news article titled The Undercover Parent claims that parents should monitor their children’s internet use to an extant. I both agree with and disagree with his declaration. I agree with the fact that he wants you to monitor the teenagers internet use. What I disagree with is how he say to an extant.

I agree with Coben when he says that he is okay with the monitoring of your teenagers use of the internet. I especially agreed when he said “Trust is one thing, but surrendering parental responsibility to a machine that allows the entire world access to your home borders on negligence.” It’s true you can’t just let your teen roam on the internet with no boundaries. The internet is a dangerous place and your child would not go through life unharmed by it if you let them handle it them it alone. Teenagers make mistakes and it’s parents’ jobs to fix them, prevent them, or teach them the correct ways. If you don’t monitor your teenager with spyware they will make a mistake and get hurt. Coben is only trying to persuade parents to do the right thing in the article so why don’t more people listen.

I don’t agree with Coben when he says to an extant. Everyone can be dangerous and if you don’t monitor it all then anything could happen. Your teenager could be texting this guy who starts saying rude things which ends up with your teen suiciding or becoming depressed. Any irrelevant things you could just block out and not pay as much attention to, but you need to keep your child monitored. It’s easy to stray from safe when everywhere around safe websites are dangerous. Teenagers are curious leading them to try new things. So, they can easily start talking to a stranger, thinking it’s a friend, want to meet them then get kidnapped and murdered. See, what if that was your child and you thought they were just a friend in their texts and disregarded