When is it OK to spy on your kids online?
A report earlier this month that MySpace removed 90,000 sex offenders from its Web site had me wondering: Maybe all those moms who spy on their kids online are doing the right thing.
Yeah, that's right. Moms are spying. They're reading kids' text messages, hacking into their e-mail and checking what Web sites they've been visiting.
Now, I admit to having been a Mommy Mata Hari at one time. I used to check my son's MySpace page to see what he was up to. I even joined Facebook in order to friend him. I didn't realize he'd have to approve me before I could access his Facebook profile. He refused. `So I resorted instead to that time-honored maternal tradition: nagging.
