monitorin your children--B2 (letter) Patricia, I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard about something like this. To be honest, it seems pretty odd, not only at first glance. These methods are usually used so that you can have evidence of burglaries, thefts and such. I don’t agree that your parents should use alarms and especially not cameras ,mainly for personal right reasons as you’ve mentioned. Moreover, it would make your sister trust your parents even less, and even though this might be okay for a while, later on, when she won’t be there to be monitored, they might really lose the connection to their daughter. Maybe I’m a bit naive and idealistic, but in my opinion parents should be able to talk this through with their children. They might explain to your sister that they would feel bad if something happened to her, they would blame themselves, so they want to be informed about where she goes and what her plans are. This way they would feel assured so they’d be more lenient when it comes to letting her hang out with her friends, for example. This is how it went in my childhood at least. I could usually go to places as long as they knew where I am and how long I stay. I used to call them when I had arrived and when I had left, or when they were some changes in my plans. That’s all, hope I could help. Gyula (Write a comment of 200-250 words to Patricia’s post in which you tell her • whether you agree that young teenagers should be monitored, • whether you think it’s a good idea to apply the methods Patricia’s mother suggests, • what other ways you can think of, • whether/how your parents used to monitor you when you were younger.)