From my point of view and the knowledge I have about kids even if I'm not a mother yet, I know that kids and privacy should never be a long term privilege. There should be limitations because if you leave a mad man to bury his mum all by himself, he might end up burning and roasting her to eat.
Everyone of any level of life needs privacy but when it comes to kids, they are like a clay in parents hands who are the potters. There is no way you would wanna leave a clay to mould itself without your interference as the parent or guardian, only if you just want it dry up there or eventually turn into a mess.
Most especially Kids of this generation and century, they are like the offload of all wisdom and exposure from ages past and centuries ago.
I remember a day I was bathing for my twinnee's son and I was about brushing the side of this man's man, lol. He immediately covered it and restricted me from bathing further, telling me "Mum2! Don't touch my kokoro" I could not resist the laugh and I had to explain to him that we needed to bath there else it starts to smell cos of dirts and up till now he still covers it but smiling. It shows he want me to respect his privacy in terms of his body even as young as 3+year old which I counted as a very intelligent act cos it shows he could defend himself against any form of abuse in the absence of his parent.
Yes, they have that quick assimilation and knowledge to run things themselves but there should still be strict follow up and supervision to reduce and control their exposure to the outside world especially in this era where anything anyhow flows through the social media and internet as a whole.
No one can teach or build our children except we and that's the main reason why every tools or gadgets meant for children now has features for Parental Guidance for monitoring and limitations which shows that no matter how smart they are, we can't still leave them to the cold hands of the world.
There was a day this same baby of mine was scolded on something, he went to sit but started crying and no one begged him but later, we started hearing "HELP ME! HELP ME!". We got scared and had to rush to him to see what was happening and after a few minutes, we had to beg him and stop him from crying since we were not sure of what happened for him to be shouting for help and we were so scared. Only after then did we realize that it was something he learnt from all these cocomelon cartoons shouting HELP ME HELP ME and I was like Ohhhh My God.
What if it was not HELP ME? What if it was something bad and non-palatable that he saw on the internet and decided to put it into practice without us knowing.
Every child up to any level in life should be able to walk up to their parents and be their best friends to discuss whatsoever they have in their minds and when or if that's not happening then there might be a cause for alarm. Open-doors of discussion and not open-doors of exposure If there's to be an open-doors to living their full private life then that should be after clocking the age of 18 which still doesn't guarantee the fullness thereof privacy of no invasion by the parent.
Lastly for the prompt, I don't think there's a manual to bringing up a child or nurturing them and getting to be children we can be proud of because we are our own manual but when it comes to leaving them to take up their own private lives when it's time, then we are meant to allow-guide them to take some certain decisions of their lives and also enjoy the consequences either good or opposite.
However, it is still my opinion that there's no full privacy when it comes to kids cos we as parents are their privacy so we should be in their lives at all times.
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