[Should I tell my child that I will install parental monitoring software on his iPhone?]

In my opinion, you should tell your kid that you will monitor him. As parent, you should respect his privacy. Otherwise, it might cause conflict between you and your kid. I remember that when my dad installed a spy program iKeyMonitor in my iPhone 4S to secretly spy on me without my knowing. I was so angry that I ran away from home for a week. I never do anything bad. If they had told me, everything would be okay.

Maybe you are right, what i thought good may not really good for kid. I will take all your suggestions into consideration. Thx for your help.

[Should I tell my child that I will install parental monitoring software on his iPhone?]

As summer approaches, I have read a piece of news that Connecticut Better Business Bureau urges parents to thoroughly prepare their children before allowing them to spend time unsupervised on the Internet. I really get a big headache about this. As busy working parents, we have little time to stay around my kid while he is surfing the Internet. He especially likes to make friends in the social networks. I am so worried that he might be instigated to do something illegal that I wanna put parental monitoring software on his iPhone to monitor all his activities. I don't mean to pry into his privacy. Should I tell my child that I will install parental monitoring software on his iPhone?