Spying on Your Kid

In every generation, there are kids that believe that they can get away with anything, but instead, may get find trouble. Some online activities that appear innocent, may expose your children to great harm. In this information age, more teens are wired now than ever. Recent studies show that, 93% of American teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17 regularly use the internet. Each day on the news we hear about internet predators lurking on the social media websites such as MySpace, YouTube, Friendster, befriending and abducting innocent children and teens. While most of these networks install safegaurds to screen out predators to curb abuse, they are simply not capable of providing a completely safe atmosphere for our children. Consider these frightening statistics compiled by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: Over 71% of teens have public online profiles, 65% admit to having engaged in risky, immoral, unlawful online activities, and 38% of high school teens hide their online activities from their parents.

What can we do to protect our families? To begin with, we can monitor our kid's activities! There are many ways of accomplishing this, quietly and discreetly. There is no reason to confront them with unprovoked inquires or flimsy suspicions and cause unnecessary preemptive accusations or destructive arguments. Gather some evidence, and your family intervention will have some weight. On the other hand, you may just be confirming that you have a good kid, with a great head on their shoulders!

There are so many ways to follow your kid’s online activities. You can install hidden software on the computer that can copy ingoing and outgoing emails, then instantly forward them to you. Other installed software can actually record chats, email, websites and web surfing, and even block any website you wish. Install a keystroke logger to the keyboard cord and record every word they type on their keyboards. Cell phone sim cards hold address book information and can be easily downloaded onto a sim card reader, and phone conversations can be recorded at the push of a button. You should also move that computer out of their private room and into a public area in the house. This can drastically can the time spent in risky websites.

How about when they are out of the house? GPS tracking devices come battery operated, and in sizes as small as a pack of gum. These little beauties is designed to be secretly hidden anywhere in a car such as the trunk. The car's route is wirelessly transmitted in real time and laid over a Google map, so you can see your teenager's location. Do you suspect drug use? You can purchase home drug test kits and even simple sprays that can detect trace residues of drugs or marijuana, on just about anything. This is truly a non-confrontational drug test!
There are many ways you can stay informed about what your kids are doing. Knowledge is power, and the more you know, the better off your family will be. See these type of products and more, at Smart Life Store.

By: SLS Rich

Richard Fan is a practicing emergency/trauma physican assistant in a busy Southern California ER, and an medical officer on the national disaster response team, DMAT CA-1.  Routinely treating victims of assault, rape, and robbery, he has developed a passion and expertise in Personal Safety Thru Smart Technology.  Learn more about these and other Smart Life Store products at SmartLifeStore.com

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