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The more things change, the more they stay the same, and the number one question of parents 50 years ago is probably still the number one question of parents today: Just where exactly is our kid right now? The good news is that 50 years ago every kid (and human being for that matter) didn’t have a cell phone, and consequently it wasn’t possible to track their movement, location, etc.
Unless you’ve been living in a cave or stuck in solitary confinement, the dangers the internet poses to children won’t come as a surprise. Statistics have demonstrated that at any given time, there are upwards of 50,000 sexual predators online, and parents don’t need to have seen NBC’s TV show “To Catch a Predator” to figure out why these predators are trolling the internet.
I was recently chatting with a close friend, a mother of three children, of which the oldest is a teenage girl rapidly approaching her dreaded “sweet sixteen”. I say “dreaded” because as we all know, upon turning 16, this young lady will have the right (assuming she keeps her grades up!) to go down to the DMV and get herself a small plastic card that is amongst a parent’s worst nightmares: a driver’s license. My friend joked with me about how my private investigation skills would be helpful in the parenting arena. I told her there are a number of tools available to parents which are very similar to those used by private investigators.
