. You've been a child before, and I am sure you won't enjoy your parents snooping around.
We've all been (or still are) children. Those of us former children who have children in our charge hold a higher amount of responsibility for those lives than those children do. It's pretty simple, kids won't always make even rational decisions. No one likes to hear that, especially not teenagers, but they are all (and so was I) capable of making mind-numbingly stupid decisions. As a parent we hope that we've taught them well enough that by the time they LEAVE the house they're ready to deal with the consequences of their continued bad decisions (and lets face it, we ALL make bad decisions on a regular basis, no one is immune). The difference is all about the potential consequences, I've yet to meet a teenager who can completely understand the intricacies of those. No one enjoys snooping around, the child doesn't.. the parent doesn't, but that does not make harmful rather than beneficial. The easy path is very seldom the correct one. Without specifics I won't even comment on what my strategies would be, but sufficeth to say I treat Internet at home like I did when I was a network admin/engineer.. it's MY (or the companies) asset.. they're not paying for it, it's a privilege.. one that I can revoke without cause. Ohhhh and monitoring my childrens actions? I seem to be one of the few parents who do so.. these days anyway
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” - Mark Twain