Fearless parent's should take action in these times of technology!

The truth is I can relate to these abused allegations of being over worked. We have a fresh teen going on 13 in August and he just began doing anything outside of complaining he does way too much around here. I have talked about paying
him $8 per hour to help with stuffing envelopes as well as other business tasks. He laughs and shruggs off the hourly pay and says, "I'm not doing that for $8 dollars!" Like he has a choice. I say, "Fine, then do it without getting paid!" So he goes on and does what I tell him without earning a buck. To some it may seam harsh but to me It cost a lot these days to keep a cell phone active with internet. We're talking a minimum of $50 a month! These kids should only get a working allowance of $10 per week, after all that's less than what I earned.

At 11 years old I had my first business started mowing grass for the entire neighborhood weekly. If I didn't show up, I would feel bad so I never missed a day. I even had 500 business cards that my dad printed for me. Two days ago my wife pulled an old notebook out that had notes from me as a kid keeping track of my first new bike purchase. I even spelled Mongoose incorrectly. But I did have list of controlled income to pay off my bike. Who owed me, for what and how much more I needed to get that bike out of Jim's Bicycle Shop located in Deerpark, Ohio. To this day they are still there selling bicycles to kids like me.

Monitoring and access to teenagers' accounts are important, though can lead to a sense of mistrust. How about their privacy? Access to everthing in the world at the tip of their fingers.......