For pictures before the 19 foot tree was taken down arriving at the white house the day after thanksgiving and be put on display in the board room. It rolls up there, and Michelle Obama and the young ladies welcome a tree. Coming up, its what so many kids are hoping to find under their christmas trees, a shiny new cell phone. But before they power up, what parents need to know about monitoring their kids cell phone use. Youre watching world news now. World news now continues . . Oh, that messenger app. We really should download that one. Whats instagram . Never heard of it. Im trying to download the seven minute workout app. Oh, yeah . Yeah. Its a sciencebased high intensity interval workout. 12 exercises for 30 seconds, and youre done. Im in for that. There are a growing number of apps these days for parents to monitor and even control the kids cell phone use. Its a debate on whether and how much parents should supervise kids cell phone activity. Here is abcs t. J. Holmes. Reporter preteens and teens, what are they doing on their phones . Many adults will never know, but theres one who does. You cant hide from me. Reporter christine prestie, mom of 13yearold and 11yearold michael was so anxious to know what her kids do on their phones, she secretly installed spyware to watch them. She can see anything. Its legal to monitor your kids, but a controversy lurks. Do teens deserve privacy or secretly monitoring for safetys sake more important . At 11 and 13, we should know whats going on in your life. Whats the problem with letting your parents see your phones when they ask . I just want privacy. Reporter last summer, christine says isabella secretly became more secretive. Reporter so christine downloads spy software on both kids phones. Were you torn . Nope. You were not . Not one bit. My kids, i needed to protect them. Reporter experts say secret monitoring may hurt your children and your relationship with them in the long run. Julie haims is the author of how to raise an adult. 24 7 surveillance of your kids, everywhere about every decision, every moment is effectively saying, i do not trust you in the slite them you trust them when you spy on them . Wow. I hope they just know that i do trust them, and that im doing this just to protect them. Reporter using the app, she discovers isabella is texting someone she thinks is a teenager. But when christine calls the number, she gets a surprise. Its an adult. She thought she was talking to a friend, and it turned out that it wasnt. Reporter christine blocked the caller. Still, it was a scary moment. Went through every scenario, reporter christine knew she had to confront her daughter, which meant confessing about the spyware. But isabella came clean first. She came down the stairs, like, i need to talk to you. Reporter she beat you to it . She beat me to it. Reporter isabella told her mom about the stranger she was texting. And while shocked her mom was spying, she saw the other side. I had a lot of different emotions, like, why is she doing this, but i was happy because i knew she was protecting me. Yeah, see, you can spy on the kids, and eventually they come around. Absolutely. Even if they hate you in the moment. Theyll get over it. Theyll hate you later in life when youre in the home. So im reading the instructions for the sevenminute workout. Youre into this sevenminute workout thing. Its really, like, deep here. Jumping jacks, description. Start with your feet together and arms at your sides. Slightly bend your knees and jump straight up as you are jumping jacks, kick your legs out to shoulder width and bring width and bring your hands overhead to my cold medicines wearing off. That stuff only lasts a few hours. Or, take mucinex. One pill fights congestion for 12 hours. Guess i wont be seeing you for a while. Why take medicines that only last 4 hours, when just one mucinex lasts 12 hours . Lets end this. Happy anniversary dinner, darlin can this much love be cleaned by a little bit of dawn ultra . Oh yeah one bottle has the grease cleaning power of two bottles of this bargain brand. Its judgment day. Back seat chefs peer inside your oven. But youve cleaned all bakedon business from meals past with easyoff, so the only thing they see is that beautiful bird. Go ahead. Might need this for the next segment. Weve been warned. Its never easy to say goodbye to a fourlegged family member, but one man across the pond had plenty of help. A surprise outpouring of kindness tops this mornings two grab a tissue for the first truth. He asked people to join him at the beach for the last walk with his 18yearold dog. He underestimated strangers. Hundreds of dog lovers and their Furry Friends joined mark and walnut pouring on to the beach in cornwall, uk, this weekend to honor walnuts last walk hours before the elderly dog had to be put down. They tweeted messages of support, walkwithwalnut, and he thanks everyone for coming out, be alive to share in the Wonderful World that our pets give us. Fitting tribute there for walnut. Next up, remember those word problems in your college math classes . Well, for one college professor, those exercises of probability just became a lot more autobigraphical. Nicholas kapour is a statistics professor at Fairfield University in connecticut, with who just so happened to win the lottery, taking home a 100,000 jackpot. Kapour said he iger in order the advice of his teacher who said the odds were too small to win the lotto. And hes an example and probably lectures saying someone has to win, so why not you . Finally, why is this suddenly the most popular bird in all of china . Because his combover resembles the new president elect here in the u. S. Folks are flocking to the enclosure in china to look at the donald trump lookalike. The birds name is little red and the species is indigenous to central china. What came first the chicken or the egg, but one user wants to know, so does the bird look like trump or does trump look like a chinese pheasant . What do you think . Oh, were still trying to get over walnut. Kendis, you okay . I dont know. Poor walnut. Youre going through it now. Its sad. Its okay. Walnut had a good life. Yeah. The neighbors came out. Happening right now. The winds are picking up and were in store for a big temperature change in the valley. Lets get right over to 13 first alert meteorologist greg bennett whos watching when the wind will hit. Cold front is just to the northwest of Southern Nevada already breezy conditions this morning turn into a wind advisory for all of Southern Nevada starting at 10am and will last to at least 1am thursday morning. The mountains and red rock areas will have the strongest winds gusting between 40 and 60 mph through today and tonight with the valley gusting up to 40 mph. Sustained winds look to hold between 15 and 25 mph this afternoon; allowing for dust, sand, pollen, and small debris