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Why it is more than essential to monitor your child’s cellphone
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Buying your teen a drop-dead gorgeous smartphone doesn’t end up your digital responsibility. In fact, it only introduces passels of new responsibilities! If you identify cellphones with better safety and find it to be promising peace you’re kind of right but only when you actually alert and keeping a close watch on your kid’s mobile usage.
So, you’re flabbergasted why to monitor your child’s cellphone?
Here’s the reason why. In one simple sentence, kids use cellphones most injudiciously and so do they do with the Internet access which is pretty easily available with the most of the latest cellphones. And in their impulsive usages they often do something terribly unwise and get into trouble.
But then it isn’t very difficult to monitor your child’s cellphone activities when you install some parental control software on your child’s cellphone. This keeps complete details of every activity your child participates in. It helps you know who your child communicates with, what kind of Internet activities your child is more involved in and what things your child purchases and downloads.
You’re also able to stop these activities if you find them taking dangerous twists with the help of your software. But you still might be wondering what activities are these actually, right?
Some of the major troublesome activities that a cellphone using child is generally found indulged in are as given below:
Downloading Adult stuffs
Kids love to download things whether music, wallpaper or games. But some of these things are not fit for the kids and are only meant for adults. This can be a wallpaper, game or application, etc. If you’ve bought a downloading plan included in cellphone bill, the money spent in the purchase will simply add up to the cell phone bill. This will get create an imbalance in your budget and at the same time let your child download things uncontrollably.
Better monitor what your child is downloading and change your child’s service plan to stop unwanted stuffs from being downloaded.
Involvement in Piracy
Your child can be both selling and buying pirated things which is illegal and is a punishable offense in most places. Suppose your child start getting hold of things like movies and music illegally and start selling them (of course illegally) for making some extra allowance,
how very dangerous it can turn out to be?
Well, let’s not think something that very awfully dangerously, but still the kids addicted to games can sometimes try getting the full version of their favorite games by simply going for the pirated version available for cheap. Even Markus Persson aka Notch, the game designer behind Minecraft agrees that Minecraft addicts who can’t afford the full version, “just pirate it”.
Texting and Sexting Mayhem
Child first starts texting, then gets addicted to it, then gets involved with endless chatting with friends all the time, then forgets all the other things, and finally gets dangerous and texting leads to all kinds of unwanted things. From abusive things to sexually suggestive stuffs and finally pictures of self and others which are also sexually suggestive in nature, more commonly known as sext, a texting addict child leaves nothing.
This can easily get disrepute to your child or even prove more damaging. Sometimes one may have to face serious criminal charges.
Drugs
As the cellphones give easier access to Internet and your child can easily conduct any online searches without your knowledge, it gets easier for them to reach illegal sites selling drugs. Again, texting makes all the conversations of your child hushed up and you never get to know what your child is talking about and to whom.
You may think your child is simply having a funny chat with some friend but it can actually be a dangerous conversation with some drug peddler. But if you’ve kept your child’s cellphone under surveillance, you know every single activity on your child’s cellphone which helps you keep your child safe.
Giving personal details to scammers
Advertisements, especially the ones in the text form sometimes contain links to scam sites offering jackpots or similar offers. Kids can easily be bilked by such ads and offers. But the trouble increases when they give their personal details to these scammers that leads to various kinds of predicaments.
Source: https://childmonitoring.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/monitor-your-childs-cellphone/
