HW 7 No Monitoring

I feel as though it would be immoral for a parent to monitor everything that their middle-school child writes in an online blog. Blogs provide a way for many people to express the way they feel without fully revealing their identity. Many people are self-conscious or shy especially middle-school students where they are turning into teenagers and entering a new school. Blogging provides these people with a way to open up and say what they really feel without making them feel scared. Blogging also helps these people out by allowing them to ask questions, which they were afraid to ask in person and still get answers from many people. In Emily Nussbaum’s text “My So-Called Blog” she states:

“But for a significant number, they become a way of life, a daily record of a community’s private thoughts- a kind of invisible high school that floats above the daily life of teenagers.” (Kline and Burstein 351)

She shows readers what blogging is, why it is popular among middle-school students, and describes the way that bloggers see it in order to provide a better understanding. In order for a parent to monitor everything that their child writes is not only a violation of privacy but it is wrong. Parents should learn to trust their children and have the confidence that what they are typing is just a way to express themselves and not a way to do wrong.