Parental control applications allow you to remotely monitor what is happening on a teenager's mobile phone. Millions of parents around the world use one of these applications.

Experts believe that its usefulness decreases as the child ages and that there is no single solution that works for all cases. “These methods do not really contribute to the development of resilience and skills in children and families,” says Jun Zhao, senior researcher at the University of Oxford. But experts agree that focusing on control is not a good solution in the long run.