Monitoring Teens Social Media

If we are guilty you know that teens are guilty as well. How many times have you put something on facebook,instagram, or twitter that you would never say to a persons face. You have all the guts in the world to post it to social media and making a big deal instead you could have talked to them in person and it would have been handled a lot better.

We need to be monitoring teens social media as well as their text messaging. Be aware of those who they are hanging out with, things their friends and boyfriends are posting online as well as pictures. You can get a good idea of the type of person they are by what they are posting on social media sites. As a parent you have a better judgement of the people they are hanging out with, and it is our responsibility to keep them safe. You can keep them safe within your own home, but what about at school, dance, cheer, music, sports, social media sites...we need to be able to trust them that they are doing and saying the correct things which they should be when you are not there to look and watch over them. Especially online, they are out there on those social media sites all alone with no one to watch over them. We need to be aware the sites which they are involved in and checking and know of the things which are going on on these sites.

We as parents need to be able to develop a good judgement and help our child develop a good judgement of others who are on the site and what they may be posting. We need to ask our children as well as ourselves, if someone was to look at your twitter, facebook, instagram, etc. account and everything that was on there described you, what kind of person who you be perceived as?? We don't want to be known as someone that we only are on social media sites, we need to be perceived as who we really are. This is why kids need adult supervision and we as adults need to think twice before say and posting the things which we do. We need to be aware and we need to be monitoring. You never know when you will find or see something that will surprise you.