I was going to do my project on Autumn Edows but I don’t think I’m going to do it anymore because a lot of people are doing her. I’m going to do Evan Skinner instead. Evan Skinner was a mom who cared a lot about her kids. I personally think that she should really give them some privacy and not be behind them 24 hours a day. She should learn to trust her kids. From reading her interview I would say that she is over protective. If any kids have parents like her then they will start to hide their facebook and stuff from her so she’s just making things worse for her and her kids.
Evan Skinner says:
My fear isn’t that I have bad kids; my fear is that my good kids will make a bad decision, one bad judgment and pay for it permanently, whether that’s a pedophile, whether that’s a stalker, whether that’s having an inappropriate photograph on Facebook that’s then used as a screening device for college admissions or future employment. Kids learn from making mistakes, but they shouldn’t be penalized for those mistakes forever. And the computer — I mean, somebody once said to me, “If it’s on the Net, it’s open to anyone. There are no safeguards. Someone can always find everything.” …
Do I think that my kids are having sketchy, inappropriate sharing of communication on Facebook? Yeah, probably, in the same way that I did on the phone, locked in a closet when I was sixteen and living at home. So I do feel that we need to give them a little bit of space. It is their phone; I mean, it is where they share.
But going back to my fears about the permanence of that information, there’s a middle ground someplace that I think is tremendously polarizing between parents and kids. I think that kids feel like, “Stay the heck out of this; this is mine; get out, get out, get out.” And parents are like, “Let me in, let me in, let me in.” And there’s hardly any way to get in.
