I totally agree. Kids need a sense that their parents do trust them and that they are responsible for themselves and for their actions. Parents are the ones who seem completely out of control, thinking they must control their teen's every move. If parents were parenting properly perhaps their children would not be acting out in the ways they are. Perhaps children would not be so angry, so defiant. THink about it parents. If you spent more times with your kids, don't you think that maybe they would be less likely to be acting out? So many parents are busy these days with jobs, new boyfriends and girlfriends following divorce, that there is little time for the kids. Who pays? The teens and kids who are being sent to gulag schools.
I can't imagine what I would have felt if I learned my parents were tracking me. I can't imagine what my two kids would have felt if I did that to them. Fortunately, my kids are trustworthy and they know I trust them. They had to earn it, my trust, and they know their actions could cause them to lose my trust. They don't want that and they work to keep it. Works well that way. And on the flip side, I work to keep their trust as well.
