Do you think it’s justified to snoop in your children’s stuff - diary, backpacks, rooms, phone and text messages (casually).
Just to keep an eye on them?
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I would not stop doing that but I would use the honor system more than snooping at them.
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I thinks its ok to do it occasionally ... sometimes kids are way too good in hiding stuff .. i have first hand experience of this ....
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My take on this is that privacy is a privelege. If my boys earn the privelege - get good grades, no complaints from teachers, no calls fromschool, have friends and seem enerally well-adjusted then by all means, they've earned privacy.
If they start to hide things, lie, get bad grades, etc then all bets are off. Their butts are mine.
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haha, i agree with mama,,,
but even if they were doing well, i'd snoop, because well...that's just me.
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My daughter shares all her stuff with me…but she’s only 7…hope she still will allow me in her space 10 years from now. I don’t expect her to share each and every thing but I just hope that she is open enough where I don’t feel the need to snoop around.
Anyway to answer your question, I would like to snoop, yeah 
I think, from what I have experienced and also heard, probably you will have to start getting worried just 3 years from now 
no need to wait 10 years 
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it's a must :) but u should do it artfully
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I am a 14 year old myself and just happened to see the comments of the parents but what I would like to say is that I think it differentiates between each child and their behavior! What I’m saying is if you have a good reason to be snooping then it should be fine but I really don’t think you should just snooping casually! Like for example if your child has been doing things that you disapprove of, then that is a good reason but just for the heck of it is just an invasion of privacy! I don’t think you parents would want your kids looking through all your emails, text messages, twitter, Facebook, myspace etc. Now would you? See I think you should be careful on HOW and WHY you snoop! I know you probably are thinking well I’m the mother I have a right to snoop! Well I don’t really think ya do! So please be rational on why you snoop becuz you could be just a privacy wrecker! Thx for reading!
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yes i will snoop.
and to answer above poster , wait till u become a parent and u will take a 180 degree turn u will not understand that now .
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No I won’t snoop, unless something really bad has happened (eg he/she has run away)..
My mum used to do it and I hated her for it.. Even now I tend to keep my bedroom locked completely if I go on holiday cos of her behaviour in the past (in case of emergency there is a spare hidden in the house but I’d only tell my dad if the room needs to be opened if I’m not there)..
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I understand that being a parent you always have to try to keep your child safe anyway you can! But I probably will snoop just a little when I’m older but not drastically
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Hmm I’m guessing most parents here forgot how it was when they were kids? When I was a kid, if I didn’t want something found it wouldn’t get found. So snoop all you want but you’d have to have a pretty dumb kid who’d let you find something they wish to keep private.
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Word.
Although luckily my parents weren’t the snooping kind. If I had anything worth hiding, I would strategically place things around it so I would know if anything had been moved 
But that never happened. My parents were like just be a chilled out kid and we won’t get in your grill you know? So thank God for sane parents!
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Lol. My parents never really snooped around either, except one day we got a letter from school which told parents about some err contraband found on some students and asking them to search out their kids’ belongings which led to a few ‘secret’ searches of my room.
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gidsa, haaaaahahaha me too!
i didn’t really hide much, but if ever i needed to hide something from mum…i’d put it in a place that would require some effort and work in retrieving, which would tell me if someone’s been snooping 
she never bothered to look it made me sad i wasted all that effort for nothing..
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Hehe 
Or maybe our parents just didn’t care about us. Now that can’t be true. Right?
Blocks Ears Lalalalalalalalalala I can’t hear thoughts! I can’t hear my thoughts!
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Perfect.
Parents think they know everything about their kid, well parents you are totally wrong. As rizla86 said, if your kid can’t hide anything from you he/she is dumb.
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absolutely not. i was snooped on occasionally when i was a teen, and i remember how pissed off/outraged i was when i found out. plus all the parents i know who have snooped have ended up overreacting to things they’ve found and alienating their kids even more.