5 cell phone activities that your child keeps secret from you

If your child occasionally shares odd little jokes from the text messages that her friends have send her, you shouldn’t take it as a reason to believe that she’ll not keep things secret from you and let you know all about the things that she generally does on the phone!

And even if once in a while she hands over her phone to you or casually leaves it on the drawing room table, you need to monitor your child’s cell phone activities and keep track of the things that she does on the phone.  A regular check on what your child is doing on the phone will reveal an entire world of information about your child’s life.

Below are 5 such cell phone activities that no kid will ever share with her parents!

#1 Downloading pornography

Some may do it deliberately while others will do only when their friends introduce it to them and there still are others who just don’t do it until they come across it someday accidently. Yes, it is the fact file about pornographic material that you are reading about! Several teen kids download pornographic material starting from videos, pictures, games, apps to electronic books and magazines available online; they do this because they have gone through such material before also and their hormonal changes (that occurs the most during the adolescent years) tempted them to download the stuff and go through those detrimental things time and again. Some teens do it because of peer pressure that forces them to be cool and doing things that parents disapprove of, is often found cool!

#2 Visiting inappropriate sites

If you call Internet a massive mesh of thousands of websites, you’ll surely not be wrong. In fact, these websites are so many in number that even if you sit for the whole year to know how many they are and of how many kinds, you’ll hardly succeed! And to guess that all these sites are appropriate for kids is a notion that you shouldn’t support at all or things will take really fatal form!

Wondering what kind of sites kids generally visit? Chat rooms, social networking sites, forums, online gaming sites, and various other sites where one can communicate as well as those where one can get hold of goodies like free music, videos, wall papers and so on. But until you know what kinds of people usually use these sites or what kind of content is available here, you cannot be sure that your child is really safe on these sites.

#3 Communicating with somebody you don’t know

Kids befriend people quite easily but all are not worthy of such innocent friendship as there are predators and criminals surrounding our kids in the guise of friends.And as they often hear their parents say – “do not befriend strangers,” they keep their friendship secret from their parents. Kids don’t just befriend strangers but also continue communicating with them without letting their parents know about it. In some of the cases, kids even fall in love with their Internet friends; they have neither seen nor met in the real life! As you’ll never like your child communicating a complete stranger, she’ll never let you know about it.

#4 Pictures of self that you’ll never let your child share

It will still be fine, if your child shares her silly pictures with others, say the one in which she is wearing a cute bunny rabbit dress but looking kind of funny and foolish because the dress is not a best fit for a teenager. But if she shares pictures with no clothes on, you just can’t call it cute, funny or even foolish. You’ll be SHOCKED!! to see such a picture! That’s the only way you’ll react if you find your child sharing such a picture online or with her friends through mails, chat messenger or through any other data exchange method.

And it is not just a sense of shock that will hold you up but also a sense of being scandalized. Of course, it is too bold an act to digest and can put your child in hundreds of other troubles and damage her for the lifetime.

#5 Texting late at night

You know your child has to get up early, say at 6 o’clock! She has to get ready, have breakfast and rush to school and be on time for all the sundry things that she has on her to do list for a certain day’s schedule. Now if she keeps texting late at night, it is an obvious that she’ll not be able to get up early and make up for the rest of the things on her every day list.

And if she still manages to get up early, even when she sleeps really late, she’ll soon ruin her health and of course, her studies will be affected as well. But sad to say, teens are often found text chatting late at night and sometimes they are as late as 3 a.m. in the morning!

How will you ever get to know about the cell phone activities that your child keeps secret from you?

A most practical and dependable way is to parental monitor your child’s cell phone. And when you decide to use a proper app for the purpose, it gets still better! You get to know about all the hidden things saved on your child’s phone. The pictures, videos, songs and hundreds of other material saved on the phone to the text messages in the inbox, call logs, chat history and all the sites that your child visits and the things that your child downloads become available to you!

And when your cell phone monitoring technology is an advanced one, you get to track GPS location, record conversation and get time stamp on your child’s travel history and get to know about every other activity that your child does through the phone. So, nothing remains secret when you’re monitoring your child’s phone!