Can anyone recommend a child friendly tracking device for a young child?

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My 5 yo has a few school trips coming up and I'd like to have a little tracking device I can keep on him for reassurance. I only really know about the air tags but are these light enough and reliable? Any others which are better? And not too expensive!

I work with women experiencing domestic abuse, many of whom are tracked and stalked. I, and many of my colleagues deliberately don't track or use tracking apps with our kids as we don't want to normalise tracking. I know parents tracking their kids isn't about abuse, but I'm keen for my DD not to think this is normal behaviour.

I know you're talking about a younger child etc, but just providing a different perspective

I track my year 6 daughter ( phone and Goodman tag from B and M) as she gets the bus home from school

Also it's in her coat and bag in case she loses them

A five year old on school trip will be closely supervised at all times so will not get lost or kidnapped

The place children are statistically most at risk from harm (by an unbelievably huge amount) is their own home.

Don't do it. It won't help and is pointless.

This is exactly what my ex’s ex wife did! Jumped in her car, followed the coach and stalked her child around a zoo.

We've used air tags before. Either sew it into the hem of trousers or put in their shoes.

I've organised a few school trips and the level of detail the risk assessment goes into is insane.

All staff spend all day head counting to make sure we have everyone, so the likelihood of him getting lost / separated from the group is pretty impossible.

As someone with massive anxiety who still has 3 of 4 kids (the 4th doesn't want to share location, the others choose to and V/V) on FMF - please try not to get into the habit of tracking your child as it can become obsessive.

You cant track a 5 year old on school trip
If you intend to do this then you must tell the school and expect them to refuse to allow tagging or if you insist them refuse to take him.

Are you getting help with your own anxiety? This is NOT normal in any way and I do hope that you are getting the help that you need before it impacts significantly on your childs upbringing.

A friend of mine did this when her kids were off playing with friends at a fair - she almost had a stroke because the tag went into the woods and stayed there for a very long time. She panicked and went to the woods - no kids.

Her husband then called to say that the kids had rocked up saying that one of them had lost his coat when they were building a den in the wood (next to the fair).