The “Spy” Mom- Is it OK to spy on your kids?
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2013
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We discuss the story about a mom “spy” who told her 12 year old daughter she could spend time with her her friends, but also said she had to stay within a designated area. If she left the area, she was supposed to call her mom and let her know. The mom dropped off her daughter and then pulled the car around the block and parked out of sight so she “spy” or still see her daughter. The group of kids eventually left the designated area and the girl did not call her mom.
Mom called the girl’s cell phone and said, “Where are you going? You were supposed to call me if you left the spot.” The child responded, “Where are you?” The mom said, “Never mind where I am, just let me know where you are going.” Was this mom right, wrong, or somewhere in between?
We also discuss a 90 second video which can be seen here – it exemplifies what we miss when we’re addicted to technology.
We continue to discuss our “Be U” program for 5th grade boys and girls.
Finally, we discuss why Joe Torre receives “Father of the Week” honors as well as two topics in the Tournament of Bad- Fruit flies and Cathy writing checks to herself.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Zen Parenting Radio. Welcome. |
| 0:13.2 | Who are you? I'm Todd Adams. I'm Kathy Adams. Are you taking stuff off my face? |
| 0:19.0 | Those checks mix. And we're on the radio, so I guess that doesn't matter. No. Easy on the checks mix on my face. You have stuff on your face. Those those checks mix. And we're on the radio, |
| 0:21.4 | so I guess that doesn't matter. No. Easy on the checks mix on the face thing. Okay. Um, we're talking |
| 0:27.2 | about a hypothetical that one of our avid listeners presented us with and we haven't talked about it yet. |
| 0:32.9 | Okay. With each other. Oh, you're right. It's going to be a real... One of our avid listeners from Avid Company, our sponsor? |
| 0:39.7 | No, that's different. |
| 0:41.4 | What do you mean then? |
| 0:42.5 | Someone who listens a lot? |
| 0:43.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.1 | Okay. |
| 0:44.5 | And he's a friend of mine. |
| 0:45.1 | He's in our men's group, and I played golf with him last week. |
| 0:47.2 | His name's Edward. that he was the one who gave it's a hypothetical oh okay you're right it isn't happened in his life that's |
| 0:55.4 | right okay okay and then i'm going to talk about why joe tory is the father of the week oh i like that |
| 1:01.1 | and we're talking about how i'm addicted to my phone but not as much as i used to be okay and we want to |
| 1:06.9 | talk about our b u curriculum all right i like it i like it so I think the one that has the most guts to it is this hypothetical. |
| 1:13.9 | Okay. |
| 1:14.3 | So let me see if I can explain what the deal is. |
| 1:19.0 | I could paraphrase a little bit. |
| 1:20.5 | Go ahead, please. |
| 1:21.1 | Okay. |
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