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If my parents had put that much effort into spying on me I would have left the day I turned 18 and they would never have heard from me again. Sure parents have the 'right' do do these things, but they are nuts if they try to monitor everything from driving habits, to email, to phone conversations. Let your kid grow up on their own.

I can speak from first hand experience. My parents needed one of these, but in 1977 they were no available. I had no business with a drivers license, and was a hazard on any road you had the misfortune to share with me.
Being 10 ft tall and bullet proof I was invincible (in my mind). So were most of the guys I hung out with.
I flat outran any police that hit the blues before he could read my tag.
It was only by the providential hand of God that I didn't kill myself or someone else.
One of the guys that ran with us had an accident and killed his date. Instead of seeing how stupid we were, we blamed the poor guy that pulled out on a two lane highway, not knowing there was an idiot coming his way, just over the hill, at well over 100 mph.

Children are all different, and my parents were very strict and I was considered a "good kid", and was in most things. But there is no way of earth I should have been at the wheel of an unmonitored automobile until I was at least 17 - maybe even 18.
Teenagers generally have absolutely no idea of their own mortality or the consequences of their actions on others.

I have absolutely no problem at all with this.

Cordially,
GE

If my parents had put that much effort into spying on me I would have left the day I turned 18 and they would never have heard from me again. Sure parents have the 'right' do do these things, but they are nuts if they try to monitor everything from driving habits, to email, to phone conversations. Let your kid grow up on their own

My daughter tried to pull that crap on me just shortly before her birthday. I wrote guidelines for living in the house. It was clearly communicated that if she could not/would not live by those guidelines, then she needed to live somewhere else. I clearly stated that I was not throwing her out, but strongly encouraging her to live in a place that permitted to live in that fashion.

She pitched a stink at first, but she is still here.

Bingo.