By Nahshon Roberts
Here is odd news for you: A Florida father whacked his teenage daughter’s boyfriend after he found said boyfriend standing naked on his daughter’s bed. The amazing thing is that the boyfriend was trespassing for more than a year before the awkward, and subsequently costly, discovery. How costly? The father was booked for aggravated battery and posted bail for $10,000!
You definitely do not want invasions on your home’s privacy and your children’s chastity like that. With this purpose in mind, you should monitor your teenage children’s activities through a high-tech CCTV home security system and low-tech parental love. Here is how.
Monitor the House
You need to monitor the house and its premises with even the most basic of CCTV home security systems. If you dismantled your old CCTV home security cameras used to monitor the nanny when the kids were younger, then it is time to re-install them. Why the need when there is no nanny to spy on?
Well, you are not always in the house. The CCTV home security cameras can help you monitor your teenaged daughter and her friends while you are out of the house on vacation, on a short business trip or at work. If you see anything on the CCTV home security monitor that needs your immediate concern, you can readily call up the house. Otherwise, you can discuss the issues when you get home.
However, in all instances do not bring up the presence of the hidden security cameras lest you have a full-blown teenage rebellion in your hands, with invasion of their privacy as the staging ground for battle. That being said, stay out of their private areas but it is a good idea to have cameras installed where boyfriends can climb up to their rooms.
Talk and Listen
As difficult as it can be to understand the teenage psyche of the new generation, you have to talk and listen to your teenagers. You have to keep your communication channels as open as possible, hopefully bridging the gap between your protective parental concerns and their surge for independence.
The emphasis is on a two-way communication that lays out what you think is good for him and what he thinks is better for him and coming up with viable compromises. Sounds difficult, doesn’t it? Actually, it is but with dedication, it is possible.
Go Easy on the Unsupervised Time
Sure, you should allow your teenagers to perform unsupervised activities to develop their sense of independence and their self-confidence. However, you have to set firm but gentle parental limits that set rules and enforce consequences for violations.
You can even encourage them to join supervised and chaperoned activities like organized clubs where you can be assured that responsible adult supervision is provided for.
Know Their Friends
Often, it is better to have your teenagers’ friends in your house doing what teenagers do for good, clean fun than have them somewhere else that raises not just your suspicions but your hackles as well. What is annoying pop music blaring from the radio, magazines scattered everywhere and the loud laughter of teenagers having fun compared with rock concerts peppered with sex, drugs and rock n’ roll?
The most important thing you can do to monitor your teenagers sans CCTV home security cameras is to win their trust, provide them with guidance and shower them with love. Everything else should be easy.
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Originally posted here: Your Teenager and Your CCTV Home Security System
