The Coolest Parents Ever!!!

If you want to be the coolest parents at school you have to give the kids access to something they can't easily get at another parents house.

The easiest way to do this is to provide unmonitoried high speed internet access.  Make sure and setup a comfortable environment safe from prying parental eyes, particularly in a basement or a kids room on the other end of the house.

This at least allows the kids access to what they want and some chance of getting it w/o getting caught.  Since news travels fast, this information will find it's way around school as soon as the next video including 2 cups starts "going viral".  This will also allow a stress free environment for the kids to watch phone pics and videos of the "hottest girls/guys" in school putting on a show and enjoying the subsequent attention for being "so cool".

It also allows an easy venue for forwarding some of those compromising photos around the school when necessary.  Also, make sure to NEVER NEVER NEVER ask about their myspace, facebook, myyearbook, friendfinder profiles.  Although they might have nothing to hide, many kids will have three probable scenarios:

1. Blow your mind with what they and their friends are posting on the internet.

2. Show you the "safe" profiles they have created with you in mind.

3. Show you the "safe" profile because they are being the only responsible kids in their school

In short, unfettered access is bad.  If you need to check in on your kids, do it.  This is particularly important during early development and internet exposure.  You have to teach your children how to use the internet unless you want the internet to use your children . . .