article in The Atlantic about tracking your kids

[Anonymous]

This is a parenting issue. We don’t track our kids. We have conversations about where they are going, who with and when they’ll be back. Just like before tracking apps.

[Anonymous]

Why do people need to pay for Life360 rather than just use the free find my iPhone tracking?

[Anonymous]

I don't and have never tracked my 3 teen/YA boys. Seems super weird to me. And I would never want them tracking me. Also weird.

[Anonymous]

Anyone have a gift link?

[Anonymous]

I assumed that tracking your kids is a trauma response. My friends who track their kids are SA survivors.

I'm very against tracking kids. But I do tell my kids that trust is earned. If they break my trust, they will be tracked as a punishment until they can earn trust again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Given the Trump administration is about to track women

Red states are already trying legit do this why not track your teens maga

There is also a t-rump plan to cancel the credit card of every woman in America. It’s written right in his plan 2025.

Give me a legitimate source for this. It sounds like more crazy leftist nonsense. I read the news everyday and haven't seen this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't and have never tracked my 3 teen/YA boys. Seems super weird to me. And I would never want them tracking me. Also weird.

Agree. No wonder there is such an epidemic of anxiety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's the big deal about parents knowing where their kids are? That's pretty basic for parenting.

1. College students aren't kids.
2. Teens need some freedom to diverge from parents. This is healthy.
3. Small children- yes - know where they are.

Asian?

[Anonymous]

We don't track our kids.

Yes, they've messed up at times. But overall, they communicate respectfully and I think it's created a better foundation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a gift link?

Geez, get a subscription already. Atlantic articles aren’t easy to share bc they don’t offer many gift subscriptions like the NYT does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a gift link?

Geez, get a subscription already. Atlantic articles aren’t easy to share bc they don’t offer many gift subscriptions like the NYT does.

*gift articles

[Anonymous]

I don't think tracking kids at any age is healthy. They need to know what to do if something goes wrong (who to ask for help, who to call) and they need to feel a sense of freedom in their lives.

I admit that it's is sometimes hard to let go, and trust that they will be ok, or figure out what to do if something goes wrong. BUT that is MY problem, MY anxiety, and under no circumstances will I put that on them.

We haven't gotten into a situation where they are breaking our trust (yet) and maybe tracking at that point would make sense. We'll cross that bridge if and when we come to it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a parenting issue. We don’t track our kids. We have conversations about where they are going, who with and when they’ll be back. Just like before tracking apps.

Same.

My husband has a shared location on DD's phone. We never use it. We do parenting the old fashioned way. Raise them correctly, build trust (a two way street), and give them age appropriate freedoms.

This is as crazy as that mom that posted a question about leaving her 18 year old home alone for the weekend. Obviously, if you have yo ask the question you've done something severely wrong, so the answer is 'no'. So glad I trust my kids and they can trust me not to spy. I have 4 children 2 adults, 1 in HS and 1 in elementary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't and have never tracked my 3 teen/YA boys. Seems super weird to me. And I would never want them tracking me. Also weird.

You don’t want to be a responsible parent ?

[Anonymous]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/parents-spy-kid-iphone-text-email-surveillance-digital-age/675286/?gift=Msx-aZSd6bM-3KkfZ5dWdeJqjFtm6E499YQcFglynWA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share