How do you understand parental control and protection?
Whenever I talked with my parents, they would always say: "We're doing this because we care about you and want to protect you." Honestly, I feel like I still get confused about the boundary between parental control and protection.
I know there are many apps that allow parents to monitor what their kids are watching on social media, which is surveillance of children's online behaviors. Then kids have no privacy on the internet. This is definitely parental control. But if the initial purpose of an app is to protect kids' online safety and digital well-being. Parents just set the tasks and rewards for the kids' screentime without detecting the content the kids are watching. When there are any unusual activities identified from kids' digital patterns, parents would be encouraged to communicate with their kids. Is this still a form of parental control? Or does protection become control only when trust disappears?
Parents, kids, I'd love to hear your perspectives on this?