App to see kids texts

blake711 said:

I had an old guy tell me kids are like pack animals. If they know you care enough to beat them, they know you love them enough to protect them. Now I am not saying go beat your kid so he will know you love him. I am saying that it does make a bit of sense that if a kid knows you are interested in them and what they are doing. They may be more likely to think before doing the dumb @#$ they all do at one point or another. Also they will hopefully not act out simply hoping you will notice and give them the attention they so desperately need.

Parenting is the toughest thing you will do in your life, if you care enough to try and do it right and improve at it as you go. Its like shooting if you don't actively engage in it. You probably won't be worth a sh#t at it.

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TonyKane1 said:

I don’t beat my son but I have sure best his butt with a belt before. He knows how much I care. I am always around him and always tell him how much I love him and will always be there for him. And I know how much he loves me. We have always been really close. He don’t go out or hang out with anyone. Just his family. I know sometimes he gets upset because I’m hard on him with some things but I always tell him I could be like some parents and never talk to him or never be there. He usually backs off when I say that. I know kids usually have respect for someone that disciplines them and they don’t have any respect for people that don’t. My niece is the perfect example. I used to be the one to discipline her and my mom told me I was too hard on her so I said fine I won’t do it anymore. Everything I told them she would be like is coming into fruition. And I ain’t happy about it. All because my sitter and my parents wouldn’t discipline her. They still just let her do whatever and believe every word she says. It’s sad really. I thought they would learn from their mistakes they made with me and my sister but they didn’t. They are making worse mistakes. My parents raise her not my sister. But thankfully I leaned down my own mistakes and theirs. I ain’t a perfect parent or Christian but I try to be as good as I can. I would say being a Christian is the hardest thing to be in life followed by a parent.

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TonyKane1 said:

So I guess I am a horrible dad because I want to monitor my sons phone. How horrible of me. I didn’t give him a cell phone until about 5 months ago. He is 14 in 5 months. And the only reason he got that phone was because I got a new iPhone. My son is a good kid and has been raised properly but as TR said earlier, even good kids make mistakes. Even adults. Heck I sure do. I still get tempted to look at porn. I remember when I was 13. Thank the lord my son isn’t like I was. I use screen time with his iPhone and it’s great but has a few limits. He doesn’t have social media and never will as long as he is under my roof. I don’t have it and neither does my wife.

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