In my opinion, being as I was a middle-school child not so long ago, I feel as though kids should be able to write online without a parent monitoring everything that they write. As long as the kids are appropriate and don't get themselves into trouble online, then definitely they should be allowed to express themselves just as equally as adults are able to. According to Emily Nussbaum, she describes a teenage boy who apparently blogs an online journal:
"Then he returns to his own journal to compose his entries: sometimes confessional, more often dry private jokes or koanlike observations on life." (Kline and Burstein 350)
Guardians, or parents, shouldn't have to read what their children are writing in a blog, they can and have access to read them, because it's a blog and it's posted online, but they don't have to. Parents are allowed to write their own online blogs and their children don't necessarily have to read them either, it goes both ways in my personal opinion of this matter. Especially since the children aren't doing anything inappropriate or harmful to themselves by blogging their journals it's not necessary for their parents to observe everything they are writing. This quote shows that this specific example child, is not writing terrible things, or talking to someone that he shouldnt be speaking with.
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In my personal opinion I agree that this is a so called, "two-way street" where both parent, and child need to be on the same terms. However, not all of the things that children due are appropriate and fitting for their age. You quote that parents shouldn't monitor what their children do, especially if the child is behaving appropriately. However the first thought to come to mind was, but what if they're not? More times than not, children are not going to show or include their parents in on the types of things that would go against everything that they were taught to be a model adolescent. Furthemore, I understand the need for children to have their own space, and not be looked down upon, especially if they aren't doing anything wrong to begin with. My only fair is that this is not always the case, and parents need to attempt to reach out to their children and find out the types of things that they are doing online without be overbearing and overprotective, as most teenagers view them to be.
Well done, meets requirements of assignment, cites the author appropriately.
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