Here's another GOOD mean Mom. Man, I'd hate to be a kid when she gets the belt out.....
Good for her. (We are getting a car this week for my son.)
We also check his email and text messages.
Aren’t we bad.
I am a bad parent too. My son knows as long as I am paying his bills...its my rules.
When he pays his own including rent on his own place...he can make the rules.
Good for you, and good for her.
Just a quibble with the journalism: It’s not “her son’s car.” The mother bought it, and it is her car. I regularly tell my 16-year-old daughter that the Purple Thing is not “her car.” It is her Dad’s car!
We caught our 18 year old son with a few “pops” in him when he came home New Year’s eve. He lost the privilege of driving his car for a few weeks and I canceled his cell phone due to the fact he used it to lie to me. I read some of the things he said about me to his friends and “mean” was the least of them.
I read all kids emails, texts, and sometimes sit in the room while they talk on the phone. All cell phones must be on loud ringer so I can hear when and how often they ring and if they need to be quieted they are simply turned off ( turned off every night at 10pm and left in living room anyway ).
The computer sit is the kitchen and is not part of our wireless network so it cannot be moved and the screen must always be toward the living area. I am a software engineer so there is no hiding anything.
I spot check my driving age kids’ cars from time to time and have in occasion actually driven to where they said they would be just to let them know I am not one to trifle with.
It does help that I was a state trooper for 12 years and every LEO in 50 miles knows me and my kids.
My kids call me the PIA ( parent intelligence agency ) but have gotten used to it.
Count us in the bad parent category, too. While our kids were at home, we also checked their email, and required that their computer monitors were completely visible from the doorway to their room.
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Check his “Myspace” too, you can find out what drugs they are using and who they are bedding!
You're so meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean!