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Friday 1 May 2015

Hack or track your children's Smartphone activity by Stalking them For Their Own Safety!


The First Cell Phone: Rules for Responsibility

''The present era has scared me from giving a cell phone to my kids. It is not safe anymore. Am I overreacting or should I actually stalk my teens mobile phone?" -Natalia




To allot your kid with their first cell phone is a problematic and terrifying situation. It’s horrible with the perspective of the fact that, besides being an essential tool to connect, it is on the contrary, the one which disconnects you with the entire world. The present generation has got addicted with the word “smartphone”. Handover an unmonitored gadget to a teen, can lead to gruesome circumstances. For online predators and pedophiles, the social networking sites has become the new playground. Here, they can trap and play with the lives of n number of innocent buds. Hence, Kids get indulged into things like, sexting, cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking, drug addiction, etc.. It is also being noticed several times, that children do texting while driving, which is hazardous too.    
Indeed, An apparent menace is awaiting in the outer world as your child virtually steps out of  your secured home. What survey says about this habit of activities done by the genx:
  •  Kids devote their entire night in texting;
  • Children who share their bedrooms with parent(s), underhandedly involve in texting hiding under the blanket or pillow;
  • 35 per cent of children make profile on social media then get connected with the strangers and share personal information with them;
  • Surprisingly, Only eleven per cent guardians are aware of their kids habit of exchanging sexual content through text messages;
  • Only 41 per cent teens accept to do so;
  • Merely 1-2 per cent parents confidently says that their kids have ever used cell phones;
  • Only 4 per cent parents trust their teens for not using cellphones while driving;
  • While on an average, 45 per cent of the teens accept that they use their cellphones while driving.
How To Check If Your Child Is Safe Or Already Victimized By The Predators?
As mentioned before, Majority of parents are unaware of the facts regarding the safety of their kids. Parents need to figure out the red flags as the alarming signal that signifies that your children is in the immense trouble. Always keep in mind that the stalkers and predators are experienced enough to lure and trap the kids into their net. Therefore, Mark and look for the following signs given below:
  • Your child is clinging with his/her cell phone day long, especially during late nights;
  • Late at nights, you realize that your child is on phone;
  • S/He locks itself in the room during odd times;
  • Your child is accepting the delivery of gifts from the recipient who are unknown to you;
  • S/He keep himself/herself discarded from the rest of the family members;
  • S/He started preferring to be unsociable;
  • Do you know why s/he is using email id with different name?

If your child is scared, Then beware, s/he may try to attempt suicide out of anxiety, annoyance, cyber-harassment, depression, etc.. Take a due care of them if they often fall sick or frequently losing weight. This happens because they feel they can never come out of the stalker’s trap. Yes! Due to unsound sleeps and problem in concentrating, your child isn’t able to perform well academically also.  
Educating And Alarming Is Crucial
Informing the teenagers about the problems that are lurking in the external world is very imperative. It’s pivotal to educate them regarding the dangers like cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking, etc.. But is it easy to make them understand about those threats? Well the answer is NO. So lets check how to responsibly stalk the kids to prevent them from getting stalked.

Follow along the handbook:
  1. Set Forth The Thumb Rules: Before providing the cell phone, You can set the ground rules to use it in front of your kids. Decorum and disciplines are maintained by your kids, if only it’s enforceable by you. Let’em have the fear of snatching back the cell phone if they violates the rules.
  2. Use Cell Phone Monitoring Software: If you still doubt that whatever you’re scanning on their cell phones are just half-the-truth then take the aid of child monitoring software. This will help you in knowing if your child is actually following the ground rules told by you. Just download and install the software into their mobile phones and know each and everything about their actions. The monitoring app will get you all the authentic reports right from the call log details to which kind of websites they browse. And yes it’s completely secretive. It silently fetch all the data from your kid’s cell phone and deliver it to your control panel. The app minutely figure out the information without failing to bag the attested records as well. Not only this but it also allows you to see and analyze the materials which have been deliberately deleted by your kids. Try it. It is very effective.
  3. No Communication Gap: There shouldn’t be any communication gap between you and your child. Be close enough to them to smartly know what is happening in their life, how their studies are going on, what kind of friend circle do they’ve, what are they up to on social networking sites, etc.. Nothing should be kept hidden, everything should be talked off openly. Aware them to maintain one-hand distance from the strangers. Teach them, how to identify the tricks of pedophiles and online predators 
  4. Scrutinize The Cell phone:  Give a check to what kind of conversation your children does, what sort of language they use while conversing, how frequently they use their cell phones, what kind of apps they use, review the entire cell phone thoroughly. This needs to be done quite often. Let not the gadget be unmonitored and neglected. There shouldn’t be any security lock system, rather it should be completely accessible by you.
  5. Trust And Back Them: They need you, be with them. Even if they fails to follow the rules urged by you. Offer them your time and make them speak out as much as they can, let them pour their heart out in front of you. Take the responsibility of the troubles that might be approaching their ways. I know this is a tough battle to fight, but in any case, you’ve to win it. Don’t let them be your slaves with your strictness. Support them and make them self-dependent. Let them know that you trust them.
For every parent it is quite difficult to keep a tab on their kids as they’re one step ahead of their birth givers. Therefore you need to walk with them shoulder to shoulder. Become tech savvy, let them realize that you know every ounce of this new cyber world. Follow them virtually and responsibly, wherever they go and prevent them from all the danger bells. Their safety should be your prime concern.