"Get on her back and lift your finger": how to check if teenage children are lying to you
Heather Steinkopf from Ohio is very worried if she doesn't know where her 18-year-old daughter Kaylin Dammon is. To make sure that the girl is not lying about her movements, the mother asks to send her unusual selfies. Dammon told about one of these cases on Twitter, and it turned out that there are a lot of suspicious parents.
This is Kaylene and her best friend Stevie at the prom. In a month, Kaylin will leave Huron Town for college, but in the meantime, she decided to spend time with Stevie: spend the night at her place and watch a movie.
Kaylin's mother wanted to check if the girl was really staying at a friend's house. So that her daughter could not send deliberately taken photos, the woman invents new conditions for selfies every time. This time she asked both girls to give a thumbs up.
Screenshots of this correspondence have gained 1800 retweets and more than 7000 likes. Some sympathized with the girl and called her mother a paranoid who destroys trust in a relationship. And one user praised Steinkopf's mind and advised her to get a job at the FBI.
Many admitted that their parents use the same way of checking — even when the children are visiting their grandmothers. And a woman named Susan said that she once had to report to her daughter: answer where she disappears so late, and send her geolocation from her smartphone.
As it turned out, Steinkopf is not in vain demanding reports from his daughter: Kaylin had been caught lying several times before. For example, she said that she went to a friend's house, and she went to watch fireworks. So that the girl does not get used to taking selfies every time her mother does not see her, Steinkopf does not conduct audits too often — and therefore unexpectedly.
Keywords: Lying | Communication | Teens | Checking | Parents | Usa