Why in the world are people saying it's "bad" to know what your kids are doing. They are YOUR KIDS, they are not live in's getting free food and bording! My gosh you people are freaking insane for saying that kids have rights to do whatever they want while they are in YOUR house. If parents didn't care then they wouldn't do anything at all. So going from the point of view that it's "wrong" to know what your kids are doing, I guess it's alright for them to smoke crack and do whatever illegal matters they want, afterall it's their life and it's none of the parents business...

When a person moves out of their parents/gaurdians house and is own THEIR OWN, then yes monitoring has a different meaning, but if you are under the AUTHORITY of another person, ie your parents, then if you are doing something against their will, then you have no right to complain about being watched. I know that now your going to say that well what if the gov't wanted to watch you, and that is the lamest argument ever. There are different levels of authority. Gov't watches public, AGAIN PUBLIC matters regarding breaking of LAWS set up by the GOV't. Parents have AUTHORITY to DISCIPLINE and watch their kids, and yes I SAID DISCIPLINE, ie PUNISH, them under the AUTHORITY given to them by the very laws of nature. If kids don't have to explain their acitions to their parents, then why in the world should anyone explain their actions to bosses, supervisors, police, gov't officals, etc...

Yes there are some really bad parents and when those matters arise the children should be pulled out of that environment ASAP, but parents that discipline and nurture their children will do that out of love for that child, not because they have some power trip of ruling over that child. Children change your whole world. You would do anything to protect them from the evils of the world, and if that means watching what they are doing then by all means do it...

Sorry for the rant, but when people say that parents don't have AUTHORITY to watch their kids and trying to protect them, it just really get's under my skin....