[Cobra64]

Well, you could try asking them where they were. A novel approach around here.

And that proves what? Ever hear of lying, like what that girl did to her parents?

I get it. You let a machine track your children instead of exercising your parental responsibility of teaching your children to tell the truth? What's your solution to children cheating on their exams? Swearing an oath on the Bible to tell the truth. Forget that. It didn't work with Clinton did it?

I guess we all have different ways in raiding our children.

Cheers.

[Secret Agent Man]

What a foolish person you are, thinking that every child will respond exactly the same way to a parent's disciplinary action.

Some kids will tell the truth when asked. Some will tell the truth if pressed a bit. Some will tell the truth when they feel they can't pull off a lie. Some will tell the truth when it is overwhelmingly apparent they can't pull off a lie. Some will not tell the truth until they are caught after the fact. And then, some do not even do that, and proceed into a whole other new lie to try to explain the first lie.

And that is the case of this girl here. In fact, the article doesn't even state that she did tell her folks she was lying to them, it is just known that she did and they knew she was lying.

Why would it have been so much better for the girl and her parents if she just continued to lie to her parents? What is the great lesson she is learning, other than that if you can get away with lying to legitimate authority figures, it's okay?

[spinestein]

[You let a machine track your children instead of exercising your parental responsibility of teaching your children to tell the truth?]


You're saying that the best and most effective parents teach their children right from wrong from an early age and when they reach the teen-age years they won't need to be monitored like this. Unfortunately, not every teenager IS trustworthy and there are some who need to be monitored because they're irresponsible. It's all too common for teens to get used to using drugs or alcohol after trying it at parties with their friends and when that happens it's time to rescind their "right" to privacy.

Obviously these parents had a reason to distrust their child BEFORE they went to the trouble of buying the tracking machine.

[metmom]

You can teach your children to tell the truth and make them suffer the consequences when they get caught but if they want to lie, they are going to do it no matter what you tell them. Teaching them what's right is no guarantee that they are going to do it. If that's the case, you do what you have to.