Are Cell Phones Recording Your Parenting?

In these days of cell phones that will take photos and videos, are your parenting moves in public being recorded.  If someone objects to something you say to your child, or a method of discipline, will they record it, put it on You Tube, or even send it to the police.

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This happened to a Mom in Alabama, who is in jail for dragging her child on a leash.  Granted what and how she was doing it is very questionable, if the video hasn’t been “doctored.”  But if she only had her child on a leash would she have been reported by people who object to children on any type of restraint…even if the restraint is for the child’s safety so he/she doesn’t dash into the street or is grabbed by someone.

Will your neighbors watch your yard and record on how you’re interacting with your children?  Have you been doing this reporting if someone is raising children in ways you don’t agree with, even when no child is harmed?

Are cell phones being used for the purposes they were intended?