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Name: bett [ Original Post ] My 14 (15 next month) year old son got busted for texting during class. His phone was confiscated and we were asked to pick it up at the school. My son had warned me that there were pretty bad texts between him and his 13 year old girlfriend and seemed to be concerned that we will read them. We had given him freedom with his texts and lap top insisting to tell him that we trust him and we never read his mail or texts. His girlfriend's lack of supervision had concerned us for sometime now and I opened his phone to read a few texts from her to him - I thought I was going to pass out when I saw the language. I searched on line and found out about sexting. Would you give consequences in this case? what would they be? how can we bring him to realize that this girl is not for him without saying - you can't see her anymore? how would you handle it? ↓

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Name: TBird23 | Date: Sep 29th, 2009 9:38 PM

Sometimes when you tell a teen that they are forbidden to see a girl or boy, they rebel and want to see that person even more. I think you should do the following: (1) Take away the cell phone. (2) Explain to your child that that kind of talk is forbidden in your family. (3) When you do give him back his cell phone, you will need to monitor it to check out what he/she is doing. You are the boss! It is your home and you set the limits. As long as he lives under your roof, he follows your rules. You can control who he sees. You might even mention the situation to her parent(s). Remember......you are the parent. ↑