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I thought that I was a ‘good' parent. Perhaps I was only pretending to myself that I new how to protect my children. I gave them a certain amount of trust without being too controlling, OR naive about it. Boy was I wrong, and in for one of the most horrifying evenings of my life!

My daughter is now 15 and like most girls her age, she is on MySpace. For years she wanted to get on this service, since ALL of her friends were on it and eventually - I caved in.

After all, she's a smart girl, never gives me any trouble and is a straight ‘A' student, with the exception of Physics (a C+), but we're working on that. I of course gave her the rules.

You can't give out your last name, address or city. You can't give out your phone number, nor can you arbitrarily add people to you're MySpace, just your current friends. Well, apparently over the last 2 years her friends have grown from about 5 to approximately 300.

When confronted on this issue – of course she knows absolutely every person. This list has grown by the natural progression of MySpace, compiled by her friends, new friends, class mates (apparently EVERYONE), friends of friends and so on. OK, annoying, but all still seemed fine. After all, she mainly just chatted with her core friends and it was just basic teenage gossip – one crisis after another, boyfriends and the like. Either way, it definitely saved my phone bill, and kept my home line open.

My daughter and I (thank God) have a very close and open relationship. She pretty much tells me everything – whether I like it or not, but at least I have a pretty good idea of what is going on, and what she is doing.

That being said, she told me that she had met a ‘new' boy on line. He was really cute, said ALL the right things and was 16 ½ years old. They had written back and forth incessantly over the last 3 days, and he wanted to take her to a movie. ALL of my ‘red flags' went up immediately. You don't know this guy, you don't know how old he ‘really' is – perhaps he's 40 and pretending to be 16! My answer was a resounding NO!!!

After a day or two, she said that he wanted to come to our house, bring over her favorite dinner, eat outside and watch the sun set. What happens after the sun sets I asked? She replied, perhaps he could come in and watch a movie with us, and then leave. Well, this didn't seem too bad. It's my house, a controlled environment, I can meet him prior to them even watching the sun set, and it is in my own front yard. Given these controlled factors, it didn't seem like too much of a risk or a dangerous situation. She's a ‘good' girl to begin with, so I agreed to a Friday night ‘date'.

Of course Friday rolled around all too fast, and @ 5:00 PM he knocked on the front door. I met him at the door and to my relief he certainly looked to be 16 and not 40, so I was instantly put at ease. He came in, shook my hand (a good thing) and chatted for a while. As it turns out, he lives in an area where I had recently moved from, so we talked about the old neighborhood for a while, which certainly made me feel a little bit more comfortable. After about 15 minutes, he seemed like a nice young man, so off they trotted to the front yard to eat dinner and watch the sun set.

As it turns out my wife and I were also entertaining that same evening and had a few friends over with their children, so I was quite busy preparing food and socializing. Were that not the case, I certainly would have poked my head out the window on several occasions to check up on them. However, if there were to be a problem of any kind whatsoever, she is certainly just a ‘scream' away.

It was now dusk, so I decided to go out and check up on them and quite frankly, to have them come inside to either watch a movie, or for him to leave. What happened next had my heart go from a regular beat to ‘none at all'. I walked outside to call them in and they were GONE! My daughter was nowhere in sight. As I continued to look and scream out her name there was a huge ‘pit' in my stomach as I realized that his car was also gone!!!

I ran inside to tell my wife and my friends that there was a huge problem. Our daughter – is gone! He's – gone! His car – gone! My rational mind took over. What did we know? His 1st name and the city that he said he lived in. What didn't we know – pretty much everything else. We didn't know his last name, home phone number, cell number, or his home address.

CRAP, I didn't even know what kind of car he had!!! Fortunately, my wife was outside when he drove in and was at least able to tell me that it was a white SUV with black trim. That was all I had to go on!!! I didn't even know how long they had been gone for.

Now my irrational mind took over. Was she forced into the car? Did she go willingly? Is he going to rape her? Kill her? Does he have the whole football team waiting for her at the side of some deserted road? My God . . . what do I do?

Well, I grabbed my friend, got in to my car and just started to drive. I was looking for any place where there was a nice sunset to look at, albeit, it was almost completely dark at this point. From where I live there is only one way in, so I drove out taking every side road possible that might be a good spot for a teenager to go ‘parking'. I was looking aimlessly for any car, either parked or driving that matched my vague description. After 45 minutes I decided to turn around and head back towards home. It was like having ‘bush fever', I was just driving in one direction and going faster and faster – where to . . . I didn't know.

As I approached my house my friend had mentioned that when he first came to our new location that he had missed the turn off and ran directly into a public park. With no where else to go and tears in my eyes, I decided to check out this location as well. As we drove in to the parking lot we spotted a vehicle that matched the description, but as we approached - it appeared to be empty. My friend (a former Police Officer) got out of the car and rapped on the windows towards the back of the car. There is movement he stated! He called my daughters name and told her to get out of the car. WE FOUND THEM!!!

They were laying in the back of the SUV listening to music on his portable IPod. I got her out of the car and told him to leave while slamming the door in his face. Took my daughter by the arm – put her in my car and drove her home as fast as I could.

When I got home I told her to go into her room, that she was ‘grounded', and that I would talk to her in a few minutes. I instantly burst into tears that were completely uncontrollable for about 20 minutes. Every bad thing that I could have possibly imagined that might happen to her was taking its toll. The shear relief that she was safe, and how stupid I had been was coming to the surface in spades.

After I had a chance to calm down I spoke to my daughter and told her just how stupid and thoughtless she had been. Whose idea was it to leave I asked? Ours, she said. I didn't want to eat dinner in the front yard and it was getting cold. She said that they wanted a better view of the sunset – what's the big deal?

I tried to explain to her what she had done wrong. The thoughtlessness of her actions, the terror that she put me through, and just the plain and simple fact of leaving her parents with no idea where she was, and what the ‘possible' consequences of her actions could have resulted in.

My daughter, age 15 and without any children of her own could just not understand what I had just been through. Perhaps 30 days of being ‘grounded' would somehow make it sink in, along with several additional conversations throughout the weeks ahead would somehow give her some insight into her mortality and the fears that a parent has when their child goes missing!

So, my first problem was over – she was home and she was safe. BUT . . . now what do I do to prevent this from ever happening again. Well, two things have definitely changed.

First, I take a copy of everyone's driver's license who is taking my daughter anywhere. I get their home phone number and call it to make sure that it is a working number, and that their parents know where they are. I get their cell phone number and call that to make sure that they can answer – in front of me. Therefore, there should be no reason not to answer later on if I call. Additionally, I go outside and write down the make, model, color, and license plate number of their car. Now at this point, I at least have a ‘fighting chance' and something to go on should there be a problem.

Secondly, I have discovered this amazing software!!! It is able to monitor your child's EVERY move on the computer! For example; On ‘MySpace' it will keep tabs on what your child is doing using powerful screen capture and key stroke recording technology. It makes it easy for you to see exactly what they post on their MySpace account, what their password is, and what they are actually saying when they use their MySpace to chat or instant message.

It has a powerful chat recorder that records all chat sessions and instant messages, capturing both sides of the conversation or instant message, including; AOL chat rooms and instant messenger, AOL, Triton ICQ chats, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, Trillain chat MySpace and FaceBook.

It has a ‘video play back' so you can actually watch (like a VCR) everything your child saw and did on their computer (that's cool!). It has email monitoring so you can see all the emails that they send and receive on Outlook & Outlook Express, AOL Email, Eudora, SMTP/POP3 Email, MS Exchange, Hotmail, Yahoo, MSN and Google Gmail.

It also captures and records the name of each software program that your child used, when that program was started and long the program was active for. You can also ‘block' specific sites and use keyword blocking, so when your child tries to go to a web site that contains that keyword, the software displays; “404 Page Not Found – Error” leaving them wondering why they can't get into a blocked site, but certainly won't realize it is you that is doing it.

The best part about this software is the ‘total stealth' technology. Once installed on your child's computer (up to 2 computers) the Windows Start Menu, Desktop, Task Manager, Program Files & Folders, or even the Add/Remove programs menu will be totally ‘invisible' to the user. It is as if the program does not even exist on their computer.

This now gives me the confidence and security that I need to know that my CHILD IS SAFE!!! If you are at all concerned about your child's well being when they are on the computer, then this is DEFINITELY the software that you need to get.

As a result of this software, I now know exactly what they are saying, who they are talking to, and where ‘they think' they are going. I can easily block all of their actions without them knowing a single thing.

It is PHENOMENAL!!!

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