Discussion: Controlling and monitoring teenage children

The fourth point in your assignment requires you to write an article for the magazine Parents (150-200 words) in which you discuss to what extent parents should control and monitor their teenage children.

If you believe more control and monitoring is required, you could use as inspiration Text 1 in the exam set, “Do ‘Helicopter Moms’ Do More Harm Than Good?”. In this article, controlling and monitoring teenagers is viewed as a necessary by Robyn Lewis and her boys, as a way to keep them organised and help them succeed academically because they still lack self-management skills: “We don’t know how to balance much of our lives yet when we’re 18,” she said.” (ll. 19-20)

But, if you believe that too much control and monitoring is not good for teenage children, you can use as inspiration Text 3. Text 2, though against too much parental controlli...