Harlen Coben wrote “The Undercover Parent” to discuss parents use of spyware on their children. Copen believes that parents should use spyware. Spyware should be used to responsibly protect their children not use it to be nosey. You should not use it to find out about their lives. You should be listening for dangerous chatter and if you are not doing so you are not doing your job as a parent.I as well as coben believe that parents should use spyware as long as they are doing it for all the correct reasons.I believe that parents should use spyware on their children as long as they are being responsible with it and protecting their child.
I think parents should use spyware on their children's devices because they …show more content…
They don't understand the concept that with that much information they have just made it a whole lot easier for someone to find them and kidnap them. Also if they openly post this without even a thought about it then how do you know that they are not going to post more about themselves like where they live and more pictures. Another thing to support this is,”The biggest problem we’re seeing in teens--even tweens-- is taking inappropriate pictures of themselves or even others.” (Source C Paragraph 7) This is another major problem which brings up why parents need to monitor their children with spyware because their children are doing this for the whole world to see. Even if it is just something where it disappears immediately and they think it is gone forever. That is not true because other people can easily just take a picture of that and then they have it to show all their friends. Another concern with this is that if they are posting these pictures of themselves what makes you for certain that they are not viewing these pictures of other people. There is the other side of this however that you should trust your child and let them make the right choices. To support this,”At first I was repelled at this invasion of privacy.” (Source A Paragraph 1) and “Some will say you should simply trust your child…” (Source A Paragraph 6). This is true that you should trust your child and let them make their own choices but