About Tell Your Child Handbook

Tell Your Child Handbook is for parents and legal guardians who supervise their own minor children and want to communicate clearly about phone monitoring. Its guidance focuses on family conversations that recognize children's developing independence and their interest in privacy.

The guides cover practical conversation scripts, parental promises, disagreements, monitoring boundaries, consent, and scheduled reviews. They also explain the general capabilities and limitations of mSpy without treating every available feature as necessary or appropriate for every family.

The aim is to help families and employers make responsible, informed decisions about monitoring. For families, that means age-appropriate conversations and proportionate supervision. For employers monitoring company-owned devices, it means employee knowledge, consent, written policies, and attention to applicable local rules.

What you will find here

Tell Your Child Handbook publishes 5 guides about Telling a child about monitoring, among them A Conversation Script You Can Adapt, Promises Parents Can Make in Return, Handling Anger and the Word Unfair.

Responsible use

mSpy is monitoring software meant for parents and guardians of minors and for employers who monitor company-owned devices with the employee's knowledge and consent. Monitoring another adult without their consent is illegal in many countries. Laws differ by country and state, so check the rules that apply to you before you install anything.

Talk openly with children about any monitoring in a way that suits their age, and give employees a written policy and notice before anything is monitored. Where a rule is unclear, ask a lawyer in your country.

How we are paid

This is an independent guide and is not operated by mSpy. Some links on this site are commission links: we may earn a commission if you buy through them, at no extra cost to you.

How the guides are made

Guides are written by the Tell Your Child Handbook editors with the help of AI writing tools and are meant as general information. Features, plans and prices change, so check the official mSpy website before you decide.