Social Media Monitoring Children

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Protect your kids, Protect their social media. Why do parents want to monitor their child’s social media account? Teens use their social media accounts to post about their lives. Teens will post pictures, write or tweet, give their locations and talk about their lives in a negative or positive way. To protect their children parents should monitor their child’s social media accounts. Parents should monitor their teens social media account to make sure they aren’t posting things to jeopardize their future. Many teens play a sport at a high school level and aspire to move onto play at the collegiate level. Because you have to be recruited by college coaches they check mostly all of your social media accounts. In the article written by Associated …show more content…

Bayless continues by stating that “ the main problem with helicopter parenting is that is backfires” It backfires because the message that is being sent to the child is that my parent doesn’t trust me. The parents always wants to have a healthy and trusting two way relationship between their child. However that doesn’t get achieved if the child feels like every move they make is being watched. The line that can get crossed is very tricky to find, to be engaged just enough in your child’s life but at the same time not seem so immersed that the parents lose the perspective on what the actual need is. ( Bayless 2) While it is understandable that the parents just want to be sure that their child is happy and safe all the time, it is unrealistic to have that belief. Their are so many life changes that happen during your teenager years and parents have to trust that they have raised their child the best they could. When they have that belief then the parents would be able to trust that should anything happen, their child would come straight to them. They would also be able to trust that they have created a safe and loving home, that no matter what the child sees on social media, it wouldn’t affect their mental health too poorly. If a parents is constantly there to clean up their child’s mess, how would that child learn how to cope with anything bad (Bayless 2). It is very important for a child to go through some negative things because it will teach them how to be stronger. In realistic terms, a parent has to let their children feel pain and struggle just enough so that they can grow and work through

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