Harlen Coben's Argument Essay

Harlen Coben, editorial,¨Undercover Parent ¨( March 16,2008 ), claims that parents should monitor their teens and what they do on the internet. The author started off being against this idea, but then he sat down at a dinner with his friends whom convinced him otherwise. The author backs up his reasons after his anecdote. The authors purpose of this article is to make sure that parents are doing their best to protect their teens from the dangers of being online, in order to establish total and complete safety with his or her teen/teens. The intended audience for this article is parents with teenagers or kids who have access to the internet, now assuming the author has teens of his their would be some connection made with the audience their.

I would have to say that some things that I agree with that Coben said was, he mentioned giving your child a heads up before putting spyware on the teens
Coben, even though he is very reasonable, is encouraging the invasion your child's privacy, for example ¨ posting thoughts on the internet isn't the same thing as hiding them under your mattress. Maybe you should buy your child one of those key locked diaries....¨ you never know, maybe your child has a private account that only him or herself can read just to jot down thoughts and/or personal things, it isn't always the situation where your child is a bad person and posts malapropos or malicious pictures or thoughts/ideas where everyone can see. Coben also doesn't take into consideration what teens may think of this ¨spyware¨ maybe your child is very trustworthy and their parent reads Cobens essay and after profoundly thinking about it, decides to put an app or parental locks on their child's computer that sends reports and/or checkups on teens to parents, that is gonna make your teen wanna hide things from