Parents
Monitoring a child
The decision that most affects the outcome is not whether to monitor but whether the child knows.
Monitoring a Child's Computer: the Decision
A different question from workplace monitoring, with different justification and a different cost. What to weigh.
What to Tell Them, and When
Covert monitoring of a child is the version most likely to cause lasting damage. What open monitoring looks like instead.
Age, Autonomy and Diminishing Returns
What is proportionate at seven is surveillance at fifteen, and the effectiveness falls as the justification weakens.
What It Does to the Relationship
The cost that does not appear in any comparison of features, and the specific forms it takes.
Safety Concerns That Justify It
The narrow cases where monitoring a child is clearly right, stated plainly, because a collection that only warns would be useless.
Turning It Off
Monitoring that nobody decided to continue is the common case. Ending it properly recovers most of what it cost.