Even if you don't intend to ever check your kid's phone, I do recommend you make it very clear to them that stuff that is recorded is not private. The police can, and will, look at your text messages and your call logs and anything else they can get their grubby little hands on.
So if you're going to do something unlawful, don't do it over the phone! Don't post pictures on social media! Just don't!
It is never to early to develop common sense about these things, but the sheer number of people who are arrested because they posted a picture of themselves to facebook with drugs or stolen goods suggests that many people don't.
Not that you particularly want your kids to do crimes, but lots of unlawful things are probably not immoral. (YMMV. This advice is not applicable to all moral or legal codes.)
...of course, if LW's daughter had gotten this advice, she'd probably have been a bit smarter about how she went about bullying this other girl, but let's face it, LW is obviously failing as a parent anywya.
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So if you're going to do something unlawful, don't do it over the phone! Don't post pictures on social media! Just don't!
It is never to early to develop common sense about these things, but the sheer number of people who are arrested because they posted a picture of themselves to facebook with drugs or stolen goods suggests that many people don't.
Not that you particularly want your kids to do crimes, but lots of unlawful things are probably not immoral. (YMMV. This advice is not applicable to all moral or legal codes.)
...of course, if LW's daughter had gotten this advice, she'd probably have been a bit smarter about how she went about bullying this other girl, but let's face it, LW is obviously failing as a parent anywya.