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Need for Privacy
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Get a group of parents together and the questions inevitably come up: Do you search your child's drawers? Read his journal? Monitor his computer use?
Each of these situations is a judgment call, experts say, but one helpful yardstick is to consider whether the issue you're concerned about could impact your child's safety.
If you're just feeling generally curious about your child's thoughts and activities, then give him the same respect you'd like to receive yourself and leave well enough alone -- hopefully, in time, he'll open up to you on his own. If he catches you snooping, however, he'll likely see your invasion of his space as a breach of...
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Boundaries are important for parent/child relationships. According to The American Academy of Pediatrics as children grow, they begin to assert more independence and want private time by themselves or with friends. This privacy should be respected by a parent. But this privacy can be limited when they begin to lose the trust parents give them. If they begin to keep secrets or do things with friends that can endanger them or are illegal such as drugs, inappropriate Internet chat rooms, etc. you as a parent have every right to step in because at that point, it is a matter of safety. Once they begin demanding their privacy, let them know up front that privacy and boundaries are a privilege that comes with mutual respect and can and will be taken away if or when the trust is broken.
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