Should Parents Monitor Their Childs Cell Phone The Controversy?

How can a ten year old child be mature enough to own a cell phone then? Children will not know much at all about using a cell phone. First, With constant conversations discussing Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, etc. it could lead to abusing the phone. Once they realize the freedom they have with phone, they will go crazy. Anything they have ever wanted to see is right at their fingertips. “Search” is the only thing away from them seeing whatever they want to. Next, children could talk to people they are not supposed to. Some child could end up receiving phone numbers from people they have never heard of before, but they do not care. Little does the mother know that child’s new best friend is a forty year old man. With little knowledge and lack of maturity, cell phones could lead to kidnapping and possibly

Today Teenagers of the world have a new addiction. This new addiction is known as smartphones. Teenagers between 15&17 nowadays are using smartphones without limits. Everywhere you turn you see teens bending down or swiping or clicking their phones screen or sleeping with their smartphones under the pillow. Day after day smartphones are becoming more central to teenagers lives. A smartphone could be well-defines as a portable phone that has additional functions parallel to personal digital assistance devices. Smartphones simplify communication and offer fast and easy access to almost every single information needed in teens everyday life. But the fact the smartphones took place over other devices such as cameras, clocks, library books, and computer games make them more and more important, which also makes teens dependent to them. The benefits could be severely undermined if mishandling and over use are not kept in check and under controlled. Although older teenagers would disagree their use of smartphone should be monitored by parents, because smartphone are distracting teenagers, causing them health problems, in addition to encouraging them sexually.

Study’s made by AVG shows that fifty four percent of children think their parents check their smartphones too often and thirty two percent of children ‘feel unimportant’ when their parents are on their smartphones. The constant use of the smartphone is a bad model of parenting, but it does not mean that parents have to stop using smartphones because parents can give hundred percent attention to their children without giving hundred percent of their time. In fact, it is healthy for children and they will not see the smartphone as more important than

In Coben’s article he explains how having spyware on your child's device is not just a good idea but not doing it borders on negligence. While this is a good idea, Coben takes it into extremist terms. Not watching your child is not neglect, its trust, trust needs to be earned but how can it be earned if not chance to earn it is given? You should know what's going on in your child's life, but not every detail, that borders on an invasion of privacy.

tragedies, various school boards reversed cell phone bans and/or loosened rules governing student use of cell phones on campus.” (Trump). After these attacks, school boards realized that parents needed to have some sort of way to know how their children are because they may think that their son or daughter were killed. An Ebsco Host article detailed the reason for this shift in policy, saying that it was “...driven by safety concerns of both parents and teens...” (Ballaro, Ginsburg).

Some might say that surveillance is an arbitrary invasion of privacy and others might mention that it is ¨big brother¨ watching over you with your best interest at hand. The controversial issues that provoked controversy, is whether it is justifiable or not justifiable for people in positions of authority to conduct surveillance of individuals. A textbook definition of surveillance is the continuous observation of a place, person, group, or ongoing activity to gather information. Overall, surveillance of the data and civilians phones can be favorable to their security and their community. One reasons why monitoring an adolescent's phone can be beneficial is it can stop suicide attempts as well as fatal actions. Another reason

The “Mother Hens Cluck” article is better after than the “Trust Your Gut” article. Because First of all, it gives a lot of information about why cell phones should be aloud. Additionally, this blog gives at least 4 reasons like. Many kids struggle in school with homework and stuff but cell phones and electronics help them so much to understand what they are doing. Or it tells us that her students have the same right to use their phones as much as she does. Some of the evidence is she loves her cell phone and she thinks her students do to which makes her let them use their cell phones. Also, there is so many tools that her students can use to help for instance, apps for the children's behavior management, receiving feedback on their homework,

In life today, parents have many tools accessible to spy on their children’s actions due to technology; which in itself has become a temptation all it’s own. There is a fine line

The article “Lift the Cell Phone Ban”, David Rapp (2009) addresses cell phones more as a positive impact in classrooms because there are more social apps, reminders such as alarms and calendar events, and provide accessibility. Teachers let students use their cell phones for school purposes instead of being seen as a distraction. After an experiment using Bluetooth networking teachers realized information sharing provided as useful. Having teachers get out of the box intimidates some, but it would be a better idea to give the students a chance since it is a part of their everyday lives. The GoKnow program turns a cell phone into a valuable tool for teachers and students to use for educational purposes and easier to turn in documents. David

Parents need to pay more attention to their phones than their children. In the article “For The Children’s Sake, Put Down That Smartphone”By Patti Neighmond, it states evidence that “Forty of the 55 parents used a mobile device during the meal, and many, she says, were more absorbed in the device than with the kids”. Children will soon feel neglected that parents chose their phones over them. People have done research that kids feel angry that their parents use the mobile device. It states “ ….Steiner-Adair interviewed 1,000 children between the ages of 4 and 18, asking them about their parents’ use of mobile devices. The language that came up over and over again, she says, was sad, mad, angry, and lonely”. This show that families need to stay off their phones and pay more attention to their each

In society today, almost everyone is guilty of spending too much time on electronic devices, cell phones in particular. Teens and parents alike can’t go for five minutes without checking for new notifications. According to Kelly Wallace in her article “Half of Teens Think They’re Addicted to Their Smartphones,” cell phone usage has become a real problem which affects not only teens, but adults as well. Within the article, it is stated that, “Sixty-nine percent of parents check their phone at least hourly compared to the 78% of teens who say they do that” (Wallace). Considering these alarming statistics it's no wonder that people have begun to admit to the over usage. Parents in particular worry about their teens over usage and have even gone

Should Parents Track Their Kids Whereabouts? Introduction For a long time parents have been tracking what their kids are doing on their phone and where they are going. According to npr.org, "It (modern technology) allows Mom and Dad to watch their kid's every move, even from across town. New gadgets can let parents know every time their children drive too fast or visit someone they shouldn't.

The Center for Disease Control’s 2008 Wireless Substitution report shows that one of every seven Americans place and receive most, if not all, of their calls on a wireless phone. The increase in cell phone usage has expanded into our children’s schools. Many children in today’s society carry a cell phone on their person to school. This increase of usage and change of demographic has created a debate in many schools.

To begin with, parents spy on their kids so they could know what they bring doing during their days.In the article the author states that “61 percent of parents checked the websites that their teenagers visited, 60 percent visited their social media accounts and 48 percent looked through their phone calls and messages. Basically, what is this quote is saying is that parents are tracking their kids due to their websites that they go thru their cell phones who they being texting or calling and they social media such as facebook instagram. This is important because, it shows that parents are very careless for their child. So, if

Next, parents cant keep going through their kids phone etc. Its their privacy. "Some 43% of parents with children younger than 18 who have smartphones said their kids know they monitor their phone." This is not right and all this does is create tension between kid and parent. This will just make the teen feel like they aren't trusted. Parents don't need to go through their teenagers phone or anything at that age.