article in The Atlantic about tracking your kids
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Anonymous
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I don’t track beyond the location sharing function on iPhone, which we never use. If I want to know where my kid is, I text and ask, and they promptly respond.
When they go out for the night, I don’t need to track their movements. |
Anonymous
Not sure when tracking technology became a requirement for being a 'responsible parent'. |
Anonymous
+1 Responsible parent = building trust Tracking parent = "I don't trust you" |
Anonymous
Better yet, anyone want to just summarize it? |
Anonymous
I use the Find My app to verify that my new driver got to her destination. Texting her to ask “did you get there?” seems more intrusive. I won’t continue to track her when she goes to college, though. |
Anonymous
It's not about trust, it's about safety. I don't look at it unless I have a specific concern (almost never). |
Anonymous
Two things can be true. You can build trust AND share each others locations out of safety. I only check location if DD doesn't respond out of safety concern. This rarely happens though. Sharing location doesnt have to mean tracking, checking up, etc. |
Anonymous
+1 same |
Anonymous
Our whole family is on Life360. One kid is out of college and in his own apartment, the other is in college. My mother (who lives in another state) is on our account. Do I look to see where everyone is? No. Do they look to see where I am? Only my one son who will sometimes call me and say "hey I see you're at X store will you please pick up whatever for me", which I think is funny. I think he looks when he comes to the house and I'm not there. Could he call and ask? Sure. Do I care if he looks for me on Life360? No. |
Anonymous
| Try www.removepaywall.com to read the article. You will have to copy/paste the link for the article you want to read. |
Anonymous
1. Biologically they are and they share their location with their 100 closest friends so... 2. Having find my phone on does not mean they don't diverge from parents. 3. Small children should not have a phone. Old? |
Anonymous
Exactly. My mom knew where her teens were in the 90s. She would occasionally call to confirm we were where we said we’d be. I track my kid to see how close he is to getting back to school after a school competition so I can pick him up. Stuff like that. He actually tracks me more often than I track him (again, when I’m picking him up). I don’t track him every day or even every week, but it can be useful at times. |
Anonymous
| I love how that article cites how many parents monitor their kids’ internet use as a negative thing. Really? |
Anonymous
There's other features that come with the Life360 app outside of knowing where they are - we have found the driving feature helpful - it will report excessive speed for example which for our DS who has had tickets is a chance for us to talk to him about his driving habits. |
Anonymous
Oh? You don't trust your kids to make decisions that keep them safe. I do. It is about trust. Side note - do your elderly parents trust you to keep yourself safe? When did they shift from not trusting you to trusting you? In my family it is incremental from teens to adulthood. It always has been. |