Summary Of The Undercover Parent

“If you have to spy on your kids, something’s wrong,” says Michael Brody, a child psychiatrist. Is Juvenoia, the fear that the Internet is causing negative effect on children, really necessary? Many adults these days are concerned of teen safety on the Internet, thus proclaiming that monitoring usage of the Internet would benefit both the child and the parent. In the article, “The Undercover Parent”, Harlan Coben explains how all parents should use spyware on their teen’s devices to monitor Internet usage. After an extensive amount of research, I disagree with Coben’s claim. Spyware is not only unnecessary, but also expresses the message: “I don’t trust you.”

Using the story from The Outsiders (read in Reading class), brainstorm all the crimes from the book.

In Harlan Cobens article “The Undercover Parent” (2008), he states that spyware is a good thing to have on your childs computer, and at first I disagreed. But, after a lot of thought, I now agree with Cobens point of view.

In the article, "The Undercover Parent" by Harlan Coben, the author talks to the audience about why he thinks all parents should watch their children on the internet. Coben uses pathos more than anything else when trying to reach out to his readers. Coben uses some tactics to get the reader to trust what he says. One specific tactic is that he acknowledges the reader's feelings. He also manipulates the reader by reducing the negative feelings that they have when they read this article and replace them with positive feelings. Then he is finally increasing the fear enough that the reader will feel obligated to put spyware on their kid's computer so that they can protect them from the horrible thing found on the internet.

I have talked with some of my friends about “Should parents install spyware on the computer to inspect their kids?” All of them think that was not an appropriate way. One of them, Tonya Steel said, “It makes me sick that parents can put spyware on computer to stalk their kids.” She didn’t mean the software that just blocks porn sites; she just couldn’t accept the one that record every keystroke, every page clicked on even every msn convo. Tonya said: “It crossing the line way too far!” However, when I discuss this question with some parents, their answers are diversity. Some of them think it depend on children’s age, such as if kids are just 10, and they will consider to put spyware

The title of the essay is The Undercover Parents, which was written by Harlan Coben. The essay was published on the 16th of March, 2008. In the essay, Coben presents his main ideas and thoughts regarding the use of spyware by parents to monitor children. He says that installing a spyware on the computer used by children, especially those in the teenage years, can help parents track what actually their children view on computers. In the essay, the author says that while it is quite hard to follow up on children while they are away from home and this causes parents to be so worried, installing spyware on the computers in the house really helps. Coben says that the program allows parents to keep track of the children

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.

Some parents believe that they should put spyware on their child’s computer to monitor them. They want to make sure their child is safe and not talking to a stranger in a chat room or being bullied online. Part of being a parent is to make sure their child is safe and protected, that is one of

Harlen Coben in an editorial titled “The Undercover Parent” (March 16, 2008) claims that parents should have conversations about their concerns with teens, and let them know how spyware is a possibility.Should parents of teens and tweens go undercover? Harlen Coben, the author is trying to make parents have conversations with their teens and tween about internet safety, and let them know if spyware is a possibility. I agree but in some opinions i disagree with Coben and his prediction. If you put spyware on your computer, you have the ability to log every keystroke your child makes and thus a good portion of his or her private world. That’s what spyware is at least the parental monitoring kind. You don’t have to be an expert to put it on your computer.

Coben uses reasoning by frequently bringing up the different issues with spyware, only to refute them and strengthen his argument. He possesses a more lenient perspective on what should be considered safe on the Internet and what should not be. For example, he argues that not all of a child’s conversations need to be considered and neither does the issue of pornography. Coben argues that pornography is a natural interest amongst many teenage boys. Thus, he persuades his reader to be more open about spyware through his lenient position on spyware and by addressing almost all of the issues that come to a reader’s mind. Coben both establishes his credibility and appeals to his audience’s emotions through his use anecdotes. For example, he includes how his friend had a talk with his daughter after monitoring her using drugs and having an affair with her dealer, which ended up well and put his daughter in the right direction. Coben also uses personal anecdotes to appeal and connect with audience. For example, Coben uses a personal anecdote of how he used to look at magazine from Playboy to relate to the audience of teens, who would be against spyware. Coben establishes a well-rounded argument; although, I do feel that installing spyware on a child is still very wrong to do, I have somewhat become more open and can see why some would consider

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.

Do you think you should put spyware on your kids devices? Harlan Coben the author of “The Undercover Parent” claims that parents wouldn’t even consider spyware. My opinion on this is yes parents should put spyware on their own kids.

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.

Adults should know that teenagers will get around any parental blocks, and may get around the spyware program. However, parents should still monitor their teenagers to keep them safe. Children also should know the difference between the internet and keeping things private, because once they post something on social media, everybody can see the post no matter if it is private or not. Coben then goes into the chat with pornography, and he suggests that teenagers can look up pornography and they will be just fine in life. Coben then points out, that parents monitoring is the parent's responsibility because they need to become aware of what kind of drugs or situations their children have gotten themselves into. Coben initiates that parents should watch what their children do on the internet in order to protect them from the dangers of the internet, and they should let the

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