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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In our family everyone that has a phone has the free version of Life 360. That includes parents, teens and college students.  My kids can see where I am and I can see where they are...if I look.  Don't give me a reason to look and I won't. I have enough other things to keep me busy. But we are honest with our kids and they have figured out that having our trust is worth it. Our oldest is a junior in college and goes to school out of state. She has said she likes that we have it. She considers it a safety back up. She checks on us more than we check on her. Typically she checks to see if we are at home or if we are out so she knows if she can call home.  I check our 17 year old at night since he works late and closes the building he works at. I'm not going to go to sleep until he is home so I like to know if he has left work yet.  My husband and I both have it and our kids have seen that in our marriage we don't have anything to hide from each other.  Since we don't have anything to hide then the app is just for safety and continence.

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Our reasoning is fairly similar.  We have 4 kids in college this year and 3 kids middle and high school.  None of our kids in college have removed it (they have the ability to if they want).  I know they still use it to check on where their dad or I are, and we know because they told us when they've called from college, "Hey Mom, I know you and Dad are at xxx but I need to know yyy."

It works for our family.  If it doesn't work for yours, then that's fine, too.  Indeed, if you don't like my explanation and feel you need to make a snarky remark or ask a falsely insincere question, then that says more about you than us.[/quote]

This^^. I don't actively track my oldest.  But they attended college in an area where I routinely get "safety alerts" 1-2/week, ranging from robbery/mugging/shootings/etc.  One year, a shooting 5 blocks from campus had a bullet ricochet and hit their dorm on the 9th floor, in a study lounge my kid often studied in; when we moved them out after graduation, there was a safety alert for an attempted car jacking, that car was parked 15 ft from my kid's rental home 2 hours after graduation, and we heard gunshots during our final walk thru campus.  So while I didn't track them, the younger siblings do "find my phone" as a group and if oldest did not respond to "are you safe" text, then I'd ask them to just track where older sib was.  But I never did it in a creepy way---just when there was a true concern.  Thankfully, 99% of time, my kid responded to my texts.  Or would tell me after an incident on campus, as they knew I'd be concerned[/quote]
University of Chicago?[/quote]

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