Life 360 in College

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:it impacts kids. I judge parents who whip their kids even though it doesn't impact me. I judge parents who live through their kids. I judge parents who put a million pounds of pressure on their kids. I judge parents who talk to their kids about being skinny. I judge parents who track their kids.

So apparently this is a "you" problem. I agree with all the other issues, but "tracking" your kids at the basic level (ie. To know if you are driving so I don't text or to know you are safe on a long trip) is very different. We barely look at where our kids are (they are in college and out of college). We use it on vacations in Europe, but for everyday, nope we don't use it. It's mostly just for safety in certain circumstances. I don't care if my kid spends their Fri/Sat at the local bars or frat houses and if I happen to look, I never mention it to the kids, but when my kid takes the 20 min uber ride from the airport back to their dorm by themselves at 11pm, I prefer to be able to track/follow the trip---my spouse would do the same thing for me for safety

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. We stopped using it in HS.

Should I also cancel the Israeli security team I have following her?

The Mossad is right for our family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I’m paying big bucks for college so I feel justified in tracking my penniless 18 year old girl who now lives in another city.

Your tracking phone will be safely in her room while she goes out with her real phone.

Sorry, your penniless daughter will have sex, with or without Life360.

[Anonymous]

I never tracked my college-aged kid, not even on find my friends. So there was nothing for me to turn off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:just use find my friends if you have an iPhone

I’ve never heard anything good about life 360

I have the free version of Life 360 and I love it! Kids know when I’m on my way to pick them up. They can track where I am so that they can be ready when I arrive. Etc…

[Anonymous]

For the trackers of colege kids...when will you stop? Marriage?

[Anonymous]

OP, it’s up to you. I still have my son in our Life360 circle. I don’t check it. I don’t care what he does, but it’s nice to know we can if there is ever an emergency.
To all those who think it’s a creepy tracker, whatever. It makes my life so much easier. My partner and I use it to make sure we don’t waste time sitting at a bus stop for kids who aren’t even close to home yet on a sports bus or to figure out whose closer to whatever kid needs to be picked up when we are doing sales calls.
I find it also cuts down on the “when will you get home?” Texts to my kids. My anxious middle schooler can check it and see when we will be at the fields to pick her up.

No one is “tracking” anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We didn't track our oldest ever. However, it is helpful the younger sibs can track the older. Used it mainly when oldest was out and about at college and I'd get notification of a shooting/robbery in the area (went to a Jesuit university so we got a lot of those notifications from right "on campus"). If they didn't respond to my text, I'd have younger sib check that they were safe.
Senior year there were two weekends with shootings in the main bar area/near the NBA games watch zone and I knew my kid was watching the game in that area. Many kids from their university were in the bars when shooting happened and had to "hit the ground" and wait it out. Thankfully my kid responded to my texts so I didn't need to "track".

Middle sib was not tracked---never gave us a reason to. But other sibs can track if we need a location or have reason to be concerned (incidences where they are at college)

Youngest sib was tracked in HS with "find my phone" simply because they kept forgetting to inform us when they arrived at their location (our rules for first year after license is to text when you arrive and let us know when driving elsewhere---we don't care where they were going, we trust them, we just wanted notification that they were driving and when they arrived safely). So we activated "find my phone" as a consequence for not remembering to provide us the information.

This post in one of the most pathetic in this thread.

What is pathetic about wanting to know where your kid is when there is a shooting in an area they live/frequent? I'd text my spouse/parents/friends in this situation as well to ensure they are safe.

What exactly is pathetic about expecting your new teen driver to text you when they are leaving to drive somewhere?