If you’re a parent, like me, then you probably worry about your kids constantly. You worry about where they are when they’re out of the house. You wonder just how safe they are when you are at work. And you probably fret over what they are seeing and doing on their digital devices. It’s a never-ending thing—worrying. That’s why I did what a lot of parents are doing these days. I installed an iPhone spy app on both of my teenagers’ devices.
I installed a mobile monitoring app called Auto-Forward on both my 13-year old son’s and my 18-year old daughter Tara’s iPhones. I did it because of several different reasons. Some more specifically for one child and others for both.
Firstly, I wanted to make sure that my son wasn’t looking at any hardcore porn. I know that he’s going to search for nude pictures—he’s 13!—but I didn’t want him visiting all of those free sites like YouPorn and Porntube. I’ve looked at those sites—hey, I’m human—but I definitely didn’t want him to see them. They’re … really intense! XXX to the thousandth degree. I also did it to protect him from bullies, scammers and pedophiles.
I installed Auto Forward on my daughter’s iPhone because she’s a teen girl. I wanted to be certain that she wasn’t texting while driving, or taking and sending sexy selfies to someone—or posting them online.
I trust my kids for the most part. They’re both very good! But they’re teens. Teens mess up. I know that I did. But the world is a whole lot different for my kids than it was back when I was their age. The Internet and the iPhone are the biggest difference. And the constancy of it all has made my job of parenting increasingly difficult. That’s why I used the iPhone spy app. And thank God I did!
One day I was browsing through my daughter’s activity via the mobile spy app and saw that she was texting someone that she had met on Tinder. Let me just say, that I’m not a big fan of Tinder as it is. I love it even less knowing that my daughter is on it, but she’s 18. Technically a woman. Well, I saw that she was texting this guy named Tom who was really into her and had suggested they meet. She had responded back that she would and had set a time for later that night. But something didn’t seem right to me.
I cross-referenced some of his information from Tara’s own search of him and found his profile name and number. No pictures accompanied any of the profiles. I didn’t know exactly what I was looking for, but I knew there was something. And then I realized what it was! His phone number! I knew that number somehow!
I immediately went back to searching my daughter’s phone for some inkling of that number’s ownership. Nothing. Then I went through my son’s. Nothing. I then searched my own. Again … nothing. But then I remembered! I went to my email and did a search of the number and found it! The number belonged to my son’s baseball coach, Tom B.—a divorced 48-year old father.
At first, I was shocked. Then I was disgusted. I wondered if he knew that my daughter was just 18. I went back to her phone and discovered that he did. In fact, he was posing as a twenty-something guy. Motherf---er!
Before I knew what I was doing, I called the number and confronted Tom. He denied it all, but I caught him red-handed. I told my daughter what I found. At first, she was angry that I spied on her, but then she was relieved. I then called the league. They said they couldn’t do anything legally, because Tom hadn’t committed any crime technically. They did, however, ask him to leave. He did. His son left the team too—poor kid.
Of course, I told all of the moms and they were sick to their stomachs—especially the couple of divorcees who had flirted with Tom in the past.
I know that spying on your kids seems seedy, but I whole-heartedly believe it is not. I’m a single mom who will do anything for their kids—and I did. You should too. Install an iPhone spy app on every one of their iPhones and iPads today.
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