Should parents track their kids' location and know where they are all the time? We all know about how technology is advancing. There's multiple apps that parents can always see where their kids are and their driving history and their phone usage. Those apps include Life360, FamiSafe, Gokid, FindMy and multiple more. There are pros and cons to these apps.
The pros of these apps are the safety features that they have. Knowing where your kids are all the time and being able to make sure they're safe is so nice, especially in the world we are living in today. Some of these apps detect when you get into a crash and notify the people who have your location and the police. Another pro is that it holds accountability when kids know they are being tracked they do way less things that they shouldn't do. Lastly it gives parents peace not always worrying if your kid made it home.
However there are cons to having parents track your location. It can hurt the trust between the kid and parent, trust is always something that needs to be earned but not trusting your kid can really strain your location with your kid. Also these apps are not 100 percent accurate and can get kids in trouble for a glitch on the app. Growing up kids want to have their own independence and if parents are always tracking their kids then kids want to just do what they want because their parents already don't trust them.
I think there's pros and cons of tracking. But overall I think its parents not trusting their kids when they should and it will strain the kids relationship with their parents.However, it could also be good just for the safety aspect of these apps.
Do you think parents should track their kids?
Do you have a tracking app on your phone?
If so, What app?
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I feel as if it is important for parents to know where their kid is so that incase the parents are worried that they can check whenever they need.
This is a valid point because you could get kidnapped and your parents know where you are unless the kidnapper throws your phone out the window and you never see your phone again and by that point you don't really need it.
I agree, its important for parents to know where there kids are for saftey
I have life360 with my mom. I think its fine for her to track me but it also bothers me sometimes because it can be annoying with her always texting me about where I am and stuff.
I agree with you, My mom doesn't text me but she looks at it all the time.
I would want my mom to trust me enough to go places without her always looking at my location
Exactly like I want her to have enough trust with me.
I do not have any tracking apps with my parents i don't think parents should be able to track their kids because parents should be able to trust their kids
I think parents should be able to for the saftey part of the app.
I think that your parents tracking your location is helpfull and strange. I have mixed opinions of this topic. I know that them tracking your location can keep you out of trouble. However there are ways to block the tracker. Not having trust in your kids can make them more likely to break the rules and find ways to be sneaky.
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