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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]Why my kid has a smart phone:  School bus was stuck today.  DD did not know exactly she was.  I used "FindMyFriends", located her (and a few other kids that I knew) and brought them home.  #CloseFCPS[/quote][/b]

Smart phones:  Your ticket to the ultimate in helicopter mommying.   Imagine the horrors that might have befallen her if mommy hadn't found her: an adventure on the bus with her schoolmates...being a little cold....a lesson about dressing warmly (if she wasn't ) a lessons about how sometimes things go wrong and you just have to suck it up and deal.  You must be so proud to be teaching such fine survival skills to members of the wuss generation.  Way to go![/quote]

We use the "Find My Phone" feature all the time on the family phones. I have never thought of it as tracking or stalking at all. There are a multitude of reasons why we use this feature instead of calling or texting the person, none of which have to do with lack of trust, but usually to do with knowing the party cannot likely use their phone at that moment.  I don't see how it's any different than a quick, "Hey, everything okay?" text?[/quote]

Wow, you're stupid.  Because it's not voluntary?  They're not telling you where they are, you're tracking them like Big Brother?  No, dingbat, not the TV show.  The book.
It's nothing like a quick "Hey, everything okay?".  Also, they could be lying dead with the phone in their pocket.  It tells you nothing other than the location of the phone.  You know, like the title of the app "Find My Phone", not "Check the Status of my Child".   :roll:[/quote]

My daughter's car does not have hands free integration for phone calls or texts. I use find my iPhone to see where she is on her commute instead of risking calling or texting while she is on the highway. Sure she SHOULD know better than to answer her phone in that situation, but with her grandmother so ill, she has been taking many more calls than she used to.

She knows I do this, sometimes she does the same thing to see if I have left work yet since she knows I can't take calls at work.

Who are you to determine what is or is not a trust issue btw?
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