Harlen Coben, editorial,¨Undercover Parent ¨( March 16,2008 ), claims that parents should monitor their teens and what they do on the internet. The author started off being against this idea but, then he sat down at a dinner with his friends whom convinced him otherwise. The author backs up his reasons after his anecdote. The authors purpose of this article is to make sure that parents are doing their best to protect their teens from the dangers of being online, in order to establish total and complete safety with his or hers teen/teens. The intended audience for this article is parents with teenagers or kids who have access to the internet, now assuming the author has teens of his their would be some connection made with the audience their.
I would have to say that some things that i agree with that Coben said was, he mentioned giving your child a heads up before putting spyware on the teens electronic device/devices. Coben also mentioned coming to your children in a subtle way, a way in
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Teens should be able to go on the internet freely, yes an annual check up should be absolutely fine, but don't go all ballistic and stalker status on your teen. I have seen from my own experience that teens who are being on constant watch or lock down usually end up being the most troublesome when they become adults. Children with helicopter parents usually tend to try and hide allot more from their parents and they also have tendencies to trust no one which would be problematic if you want your child to grow up with proper social skills. I think the point should be to establish trust and safety with your teen, not to just automatically assume your teen is doing bad things online that is a form of belittling in the mind of your child and will drive a wedge between the two of you. Teens should be able to make mistakes so they can learn with
Coben states that parents should put spyware on their kids computers, but shouldn’t be nosey and be completely responsible look for anything hazardous. However I disagree and believe teenagers should be trusted with online responsibilities. One reason for this is a third party (the vendor) makes a record of what you do ,but the author did not make note this or did not even know which in my opinion is worst than a faceless bureaucrat because that third is likely to release it to other parties such as google or other big corporations.
While it is true that monitoring children is helpful, it does not necessarily mean that parents should invade children’s internet activity, ignoring their autonomy. Although most parents do not have malicious intent, it is invalid because it could cause harm, “And most parents already monitor their children, watching over their home environment, their school” (paragraph 4). Secure parents do not feel obligated to pry on their children because it creates a distrusting environment where the children are always on guard around their parents. Due to possible breaches of trust by parents, their parental dynamic could be corrupted by misguided love. Furthermore, Coben talks about parents not trusting their children and correlates it to negligence, “Trust is one thing, but surrendering parental responsibility to a machine that allows the entire world access to your home borders on negligence” (paragraph 6).
As the Internet developed, it brings a lot of benefits, such as getting information much quicker; however, it also brings problem. One problem that Internet brings to today’s society is children’s safety on virtual world; there are a lot of temptations attract kids on the Internet. This issue Coben discusses is a particularly controversial one because it’s hard for parents ignore the dangerous on the Internet; on the other hand, if parents surveillance kids’ privacy world, it’s really embarrassed for children. How could we solve this problem? What is a compromise way for both parents and children? Coben thinks parents should use spyware on the computer, but not surreptitious doing this; parents should tell
Parents watch their children before they get themselves in trouble. On the other hand, children don’t deserve to be watched and questioned after every interaction on the internet. The uses of the internet for teens involve following celebrities or people they look up to. They mostly follow people they know. If not, they follow people who have the same interests as them.
In the article by Coben, Harlan. “The Undercover Parent.”(2008) Coben claims that spyware should be used to see what your teenager is doing on their device. Coben supports his thesis by saying example of things happening on the internet that parents need to be aware of, for example a teenager can be talking to a stranger online and the person sends the teenager a message or link to bad things. He made this article to inform parents that your kids can be doing bad things on the internet in order to get parents to use Spyware.
The texts’ Daily mail and the CEOP Where’s Klaus video have similarities and differences in which they present their topics to the targeted audiences. The Daily Mail text is to advise as well as warn parents of teenagers about the consequences of going on social networking sites like Facebook and is aimed at well-educated, professional parents of children between 11-18, undergoing their educational courses. The Where’s Klaus video is also used as a cautioning to well-educated mothers, who don’t have as much time to spend with their kids, telling them the consequences of not protecting their children on the internet.
Harlan Coben, in the article “The Undercover Parent” (2008), explains that in order to keep kids safe on the internet, parents should download spyware on their computers and phones. Coben supports his claim by first illustrating the different dangers there are on the internet by creating fear and then providing examples of different stories his friends have told him about their children on the internet. The author’s purpose is to persuade the parents of teens to download spyware on their kid’s computers so that they can make sure their kids are safe and responsible while online. Coben writes in a persuasive tone for the parents of teenagers to convince them that downloading spyware is the responsible thing to do. While I agree with Coben’s argument on downloading spyware on children’s computers, his lack of solid evidence weakens his chances of
They should remind their child constantly of being careful but I do not think parents should spy on their child. Parents should also tell their child that if they are in a dangerous situation, they need to let them know because parents are there to help.
“The Undercover Parent” is an article about whether or not parents should get a software that watches teens and children’s actions on the computer. So should parents of Teens and Tweens go undercover? Harlan Coben, the author of “The Undercover Parent” editorial (19 March 2008) from the New York Times online website claims that parents should have conversations about their Internet safety concerns with their teens and tweens, and let them know that Spyware is a possibility. I agree with what coben is arguing about. It talks about specific details on either giving parents an option on if they should download it or not, so the author writes good things and bad things about it. It's not snooping or spying on your teens. It basically for their safety. If they still had this software in the future, I would get this because everything the author says about this software is very agreeable. I would do it for my
In this essay, Coben is telling parents to put spyware on their children's computers so that they can monitor their child's use of online sites. He says that parents should be able to know what is going on in their children's lives, and that bad situations can be avoided by monitoring what children are doing online. First of all, Parents should trust their kids if they’re old enough. Coben says, “ If he’s old enough to go on the internet, he is old enough to know the dangers” (paragraph 6) . As a teen I know how to keep myself safe and i know most apparent hazards. I’m not saying i know every single thing but i know not to fall for obvious scams and schemes. For all the other teens, yes, they do know right from wrong. The only problem is they still take irresponsible choices.
The reason I really agree is because Coben is showing how good spyware could be because it could tell you what your kids are doing and see if it’s bad and even see who they’re even talking because they could be talking to some crazy and weird people. Another good thing about spyware is that you could put a tracking device in their cell phones to see if they’re going in a bad neighborhood. If I was a parent I would consider using spyware just to make sure that my children are ok and not in danger. Coben is trying to get parents to agree but some parents might think it’s invading their children's space but Coben is just trying to show that without protection it could lead into
Facebook, Snapchat, Kik, Twitter, Instagram, and gaming sites are all good until something bad happens. Author Harlan Coben writer of “The Undercover Parent”, believes parents should monitor their children's software. Even though children find software useful, parents should monitor their kids software because children can be cyber bullied. Children can also be in danger of pedophiles .
Every day teenagers use the internet, whether it’s on their phones or on the computers at school or at home. Their lives are practically centered around it. They’re connecting with each other on social media such as: Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and even online video games, and this has is benefits, but it can also have some negative and possibly dangerous situations. The internet is not a safe haven for anyone or anything. In the article “The Undercover Parent” the author, Harlan Coben, makes the argument that spyware is alright to be used by parents on their kids computers as long as the parents are using the software responsibly. I agree with Coben’s statements because of his solid arguments of dangerous conversations, privacy, and bullying.
In this article the author discusses about the harmful actives that the internet dose to the youth. With two main points; cyber bullying and sexting, the author briefly discusses what they are and what threat that occurs from them. The article is useful to me because it shows the harmfulness on what could happen on the internet. However, this article is very vague and lakes a certain amount of information to achieve its point.
Some parents are not aware of dangers of internet that brings to their children particularly making friends through internet. For example, their children might get cheated with someone else on internet and their children will not tell what happen to them when they encounter danger. According to BBC News, a 47 year old man defrauded a 13 year old girl online and asked to meet face to face. Luckily, the girl’s mother found out beforehand or else her daughter might be in danger. From this news, we can see that there internet friends are not always honest and they are more likely to consider as un-trustful strangers. Therefore, parents should concern more about their children, teach them about the dangers of making friends on internet, and avoid them from going out with a stranger.