Intrude on Your Kid's Computer Use? Maybe Not, Says Study
I'm not so sure about this but a new study has found that if we as parents intrude too much on our kids' computer use , it could be a bad thing. Uh oh. Guess I'm guilty. But not of intruding. More of yelling at him to get off it. But anyway. According to the University of Haifa, intrusive monitoring of Internet use by parents actually leads adolescents to increase their risky behavior online, newswise.com reports. I keep thinking about a recent episode of "Married," that slightly obscene (but funny) cable show about middle-aged marriage, where the parents of three young girls go to visit another family and the bored dad wanders upstairs to find a computer, and starts looking at porn, only to have the poor pimply teenaged son blamed by the father in the other family when the alarm he set goes off. Guess you had to be there. Anyway, the study found that parents who very closely monitor their children’s Internet use in an attempt to reduce unsafe onl...