No but teaching them the right way instead of the wrong way and to set a example for others when they hit 18 and can do for themselves.
You call it not healthy? First off you have a world that is filled to the brim with hyper sensitive people on social media, people making video's on cops to exercise their rights just to make money off the video also to disrupt whatever the law is doing to prove a point that they are being harassed by the law.
kids eating soap pods, doing stuff from youtube, stuff on snapchat they probably dont want you knowing things you are in the dark about you might say it wont happen to me but trust me it does think when you were a kid you did stuff you werent supposed to do and be like meh maybe it won't be so bad I say we were lucky and today is different than it was back then.
people who bury their faces in cell phones who don't pay attention to whats going on who either fall into traffic or crash, kids recording fights even adults instead of getting involved and stopping it.
Let me guess if you had a kid you'd buy them a cell phone, you'd allow them to go online you'd go watch tv while they secretly go on snapchat or sites they shouldn't be going on as they are being raised online they don't learn proper whats right from wrong, they get bullied in school they don't tell you because you don't insert yourself early on and have normal talks with them instead because you didn't take the time to get involved they've sheltered themselves away from you and keep to themselves now that isn't healthy.
nobody says I leave them in the dark also that would be more you than me, I keep track I tell them and talk to them normally not hey here's a cell phone run along I trust you not to do what I wouldn't do.
and they'll do it trust me.
Cause id bet you anything if you ask them to see their phone or whatever emails they have they'd tell you straight no to your face and guess what no matter how mad you get this is on you can't blame them cause you allowed it.
there is a time to be nice and then a time when you know its enough especially if you know its wrong you have a obligation as a parent to step in and fix it, if a kid breaks a window out of a car its the parents duty to pay for it, I am going to be the parent that prevents my kid from doing that this way nobody pays anything, not be like don't let me catch you doing that again now go play on your phone while I make dinner NO sorry.
this is getting off track any how good luck also thanks for the pep talk.
I know i'll get a few nay's here and there but its fine you are entitled to your opinions.
now enough about me, continue with OP topic.