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It really is a mixture of positive influence and involvment. Monitoring can be a unsettling word, people think of privacy invasion when they hear it. But you have to know what they do at least some of the time, and if you have done your job right, you can trust them to make the right decisions on their own the rest of the time.
It doesn't take a whole lot. My parents were just wrong on many levels and I could have easily been one of those kids you hear about on the news. I mean, I did a lot of things I'm not proud of but it could have been worse.
All it took was one person (my grandma) to be a positive influence, to show me right and wrong, and to let me know that somebody gave a shit. Once you get those basics worked out, everything else kinda falls into place. It did for me anyway, and hopefully it will work the same way with my kids.
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