04-26-2016, 11:00 PM
(04-26-2016, 12:27 AM)Vas Deferens Wrote: Thanks for the FB update, had no idea. So how do you solve for decentralized social interactions super dad? Might as well take the Internet away from them and handcuff their future.
I think you're thinking that Im talking about some deep rooted covert CIA/Special Ops situation where you monitor their every move, word, and syllable. That's not it and that's impossible to do.
What Im saying is a casual monitoring of what they're up to, what their mood is, and what their friends are doing. And it's my opinion that you really have to do it.
My brother in law that I referenced above, being a "stay out of their business and give them free reign because they're just going to hate you and do what they want to do anyway" parent, he doesn't monitor his kids interactions at all. Well as I said above, he's having trouble with the MJ (been arrested TWICE already at age 16) and has experimented recently with Oxy. We know this because his ex wife DOES snoop through his stuff and read some texts. Thankfully through her reaching out to my wife and the both of them talking sense into him (he blew it off as the kid was just experimenting like he used to do) they have gotten together and are getting help for the kid. Its scary as the kid at only 16 is well on his way to heroin trouble and if my BIL's ex had the same attitude as him, he would no doubt be even closer today.
