Re: Telephone tap

"Yellow Submarine" <yellowsub@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:zfg3f.201$Jo3.64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>> I want to monitor what my teen kids are saying on the telephone
> >>>> from time to time. I've set up an extension with an earphone to
> >>>> listen in, but when I turn it on there's an audible click on the
> >>>> other phone that my kids will hear. Eventually they will figure it
> >>>> out.
> >>>>
> >>>> Are there any ways to minimize or eliminate the cues that an
> >>>> extension has been picked up, short of using an automatic recording
> >>>> device?
> >>>
> >>> I'd save the money on automatic recording devices and spend it
> >>> on a good parenting class at your local community college. If
> >>> this is your idea of communication, your kids are in for a very
> >>> rough life.
> >>
> >> Thank you so much for the cheap shot, but your assumptions are
> >> totally innacurate.
> >>
> >> Perhaps you don't have a clue as to how difficult it can be to
> >> monitor what a kid is actually doing, as opposed to what they say
> >> they're doing.
> >>
> >> I do.
> >
> > That's exactly why I suggested a parenting class. If lines of
> > communication were what they should be between you and
> > your kids, there would be no need to covertly monitor them.
>
> So you say, and you are certainly entitled to express your opinion about
> my parenting skills even though you know so little about this situation.
> I have good quality communication with my children, but I also know that
> even good kids lie to their parents about some things. And kids have an
> annoying habit of thinking they can handle stuff or that they know
> better.

Annoying habit? You're either utterly clueless about child
development or a pathetic control freak. Or maybe both.

The fact remains, if you had a decent relationship with your
kids they wouldn't feel it necessary to lie to you -- about
anything. Learn how to be a friend instead of just a creep
who secretly monitors phone conversations and internet
habits, and you'll have much more influence over them.


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