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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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 .
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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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.
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 :p 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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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..
Hehe :)
Or maybe our parents just didn't care about us. Now that can't be true. Right?
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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.
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.