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WindsorFox[SS] wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>
>>
>> "A teen tracking system is not an invasion of privacy and it is not
>> a trust issue, it is about protecting your teen driver from
>> misjudgments teens too often make when driving."
>>
>> Well, you certainly got this wrong. Tracking your teen IS an
>> invasion of privacy BECAUSE you don't trust them. It's that simple.
>> Anyone who says otherwise is in serious denial.
>
> And you're a very Liberal member of PETA, right? Excuse me,
> underage children living in my house have NO privacy. Therefore there
> is nothing to invade. YOU got it all wrong and anyone who disagrees
> (in either case) is a parent who may be the one on the news "but may
> child would DO something like that!" It's not about trust, it's about
> the safety and well being of a child by knowing where that child is
> when you want to. Suppose they were in a wreck and can not make a
> call?
>
>>
>> If parents cannot admit what they are doing rather than trying to
>> twist and justify it, there will never be a worthwhile relationship
>> between them and their child.
>
> Wrong, it is the parents who want to be their childs best friend
> rather than be a parent who have the problems. Oh I would admit it
> wholeheartedly, I will check up on him/her whenever I desire.
>
>>
>> It's no different than a parent who decides to look through a childs
>> room or belongings for drugs or anything else of concern. Should it
>> be done? Absolutely if you, as a parent, think it needs to be done.
>> But stop making excuses or lying about it.
>
> Who makes excuses? Kids WILL make mistakes and there are laws that
> can take posession of your house if your kid has drugs there. So
> digging through the sock drawer is okay, but looking to see if they
> are really at the library is not? Please...
>
>>
>> Bottom line is that your teen isn't stupid. They can smell your lie
>> as quick as they can come up with their own.
>
> I still don't get the lie here, If I tell my kid that I can see where
> you are, do not go where you shouldn't go, how is that a lie?3
When Mark gets out of his teens and becomes a parent he will look at things
differently. Schools teach children to watch their parents for drug use and
other improprieties so it has to work both ways for a better society.
John