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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always had to let my parents know where I was going and what I was doing during the day especially after getting a car. Once I moved away I didn't because I wasn't living with them anymore. Problem solved. [/quote]

sounds like my parents.  My kids have a lot more freedom.  They leave the house at 7pm on a Saturday night and just know to be home at midnight.  i have no idea where they're going.  I can locate them by "find my phone" if I really need to find them.  I rarely if ever do. 
Cell phones give them freedom that I am comfortable giving it to them because I can locate them in case of emergency.  [/quote]

The point is, your kids should have the freedom to do that without phones. 10 years ago kids used to leave the house at 7pm on a Saturday night and be home at midnight just the same. Except there’d be no tracking. You don’t get the same mental freedom as a kid when you’re digitally chained to mom and dad. Doesn’t feel like you’re forging your own. A loss of true independence. And you say your kids don’t mind, but they don’t know any different because they’ve always been tethered to you. And so do many of their friends. [b]It’s a systemic problem. [/b]

It’s the real problem with Millennial and older parents of Gen Z and younger kids. The parents don’t know what it’s like having a digital upbringing and don’t realize the harm they doing upon their kids. And the kids don’t know any better. [/quote]

what's the problem?  my teens have many friends, romantic relationships, good mental health, jobs each summer since age 15 that they work to earn all their own spending money, do very well in school (heck the oldest is headed to any Ivy this fall).  They attend all their own medical appointments, shop for themselves, do their own laundry, have travelled internationally without adults several times, etc.

I fail to see where the problem is or how being tracked by us via "find my phone" is A PROBLEM.  How is it hurting them?  [/quote]

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