Quote Originally Posted by Saraide View Post
Established rules are good but they have to respect the child as individual who also has a right to privacy which you are extremely violating with installing a keylogger like you suggested earlier. This isnt about caring or not, this is about forcing your child into a surveilance state or being there for them as person of trust and taking a healthy interest in what they are doing in their free time while also respecting boundries. If you dont respect their boundries, what makes you think they will respect the boundries of others?
This is right, children DO have a right to privacy, but that privacy doesn't need to include things like the internet. If they want privacy, they can go into their room and be in private. If they want to use the internet, it's a shared computer in a shared location.

There is some nuance here and there's a way to handle it without putting up cameras in the child's room and having an "always open door" policy.

Once they're in high school they can have access to a computer in their room and hopefully they understand the dangers of online predators.