<p>I just thought I’d clarify something - my daughter is not college age. She is 16, and we had our initial conflict over my reading her blog when she was 15 and she had written about attending a party where there was heavy drinking and a serious incident resulting in police being called. She had left the party early, but originally given me a whitewashed account of why she had left – so what really upset her was that my blog reading allowed me to discover that she had not been honest with me. My impression was that the initial post in this thread from Boysmom2 also involved a high school aged child. The issue really comes up because as a parents of younger teenagers, we are responsible for supervising our kids, both morally and legally. I am not interested in spying on my daughter, but I am interested in keeping reasonably informed and enforcing age-appropriate standards while she is still a minor. </p>
<p>Whether she can password protect her blog or not - I don’t know. I assume she could, but that she wants the blog to be fully accessible to all her high school friends. She obviously does know very well that I have access to the blog and can read it. I found out about the blog because she showed me parts of it, twice, before I ever started looking it on my own. (Kind of like if parents who post here have shown their kid the site because they want them to read a particular post, and then find later on that the kid has come back and read through everything the parent ever posted). </p>
<p>I think this is kind of like a kid with a written diary announcing to the family that it is absolutely secret and never to be touched, and then leaving it laying open on the dining room table. I think sometimes high school age teens have issues they really want their parents to know about, but they are uncomfortable talking about.</p>