It’s definitely the 21st century. Kids have social media accounts, cell phones, iPads and even join dating sites while in their pre-teens and teenage years. With this new world of technology and cyberspace communication, it’s tough for parents to keep up with what their children are really doing.
There are several great ways that parents can keep tabs on their kids’ activities online. Mobicip checks internet usage and apps installed on their devices. Qustodio also watches usage and apps, and has a tracker and panic button. Spyera might be expensive, but it filters web browsers, monitors social sites, blocks vulgar language and pornography and much more.
But what about their cell phones? There are ways you can see what they are texting and monitor what they do on their phones, without them even knowing. MSpy shows you who they call, what they text, GPS location, which apps they use and more. Another highly rated phone monitoring app is The Spy Bubble.
Understanding your children’s lingo with their peers is about as hard as it was for your parents when you were a child. However, now they speak in code and shortened words. Twitter only allots for 144 characters, which is where some of these popular acronyms were born. Here are some texting and social media acronyms you might want to be aware of when it comes to your kids:
#-) Exhausted, partied all night
%*} Inebriated
%\ Hangover
143/459/ILU/ILY I love you
1174 The meeting place for a party
303 Mom
420 Marijuana
4YEO For Your Eyes Only
53X Sex
8 Oral sex
9 or CD9 (code 9) Parent Watching
99 Parent Gone
?^ Want to Hook Up?
AF As F***
AITR Adult in the Room
ASLP (What is your) Age/Sex/Location/Picture? (Also ASL)
BYAM Between You and Me
CD9 Parents around/Code 9
CICYHW Can I Copy Your Homework?
CRAFT Can’t Remember a F’ing Thing
CU46 See You For Sex
DADT Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
DOC Drug Of Choice
DTF Down to F***
DTH Down To Hang (I’m up for getting together)
DYHAB/G Do You Have A Boyfriend/Girlfriend?
F2F Face to Face
FWB Friends With Benefits
FYEO For your eyes only
GNOC Get Naked on Camera
GYPO Get Your Pants Off
I&I Intercourse & Inebriation
IPN I’m Posting Naked
IWSN I Want Sex Now
J/O or JO Jerking Off
KPC Keeping Parents Clueless
LH6 Let’s Have Sex
LJBF Let’s just be friends
LMIRL Let’s Meet In Real Life
LYLAB/S Love You Like A Brother/Sister
M/POS Mom/Parents over shoulder
MPFB My Personal F*** Buddy
NSA No Strings Attached
PA / PA911 Parent Alert
PAL Parents are Listening
PAW Parents are Watching
PIR Parent in Room
PRON Porn
RU/18 Are You Over 18?
RUH Are You Horny
S2R Send to Receive (show me yours, I’ll show you mine)
SHIP Relationship
SOBT Stressed Out Big Time
TDTM Talk Dirty To Me
TWD Texting While Driving
WTPA Where’s The Party At?
WTTP Want To Trade Pictures?
