A recently launched Web site, Nannyscircle.com, allows parents to communicate and require tasks of their children without actually talking to them.
A recently launched Web site, Nannyscircle.com, allows parents to communicate and require tasks of their children without actually talking to them. (While the site name capitalizes on nanny intervention TV shows like Supernanny and Nanny 911 , such a disconnected approach is far removed from what the shows advocate.)
At the Web site parents send notes and requests through a parental control panel to their children who may then log on and enter their virtual "room" and virtual "computer" and read the messages (Monica Hesse, "Web Site Gives Parents a Hand," The Washington Post , Aug. 29, 2008).
While the "middleman" or "middle-nanny" approach to parenting may be effective for some, it misses the fundamental point of turning the hearts of the parents toward their children and children to parents through respectful, face-to-face communication. God directs children to honor their parents and parents to instruct and love their children. A Web site could conceivably be a tool to that end, but it wouldn't be a permanent solution.
