Teen monitoring apps don't work, and drive a wedge between teens and parents
Trust. But verify.<p>Step-father of a 12 year old boy here.<p>We started monitoring his internet after we caught him looking at inappropriate videos on youtube.<p>He knows he is being monitored and I only block actual porn sites. Neither of us like it but until he has earned our trust back, the situation will not change.<p>I&#x27;m his parent, not his friend. My job isn&#x27;t to make him like me, it&#x27;s to raise him with proper values and protect him from the dangers he doesn&#x27;t yet know exist or may not yet understand.<p>If I do it right, he will thank me later.