Which tracker is best to track my children?

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I'm trying to find a good tracker for my children, the itagpro sounds good but I couldn't work out if it was hyped up as the review person had a discount on it.

The air tag, can it only be used with an i phone? As I have an Android.

Is there any other good ones? I need it to be accurate and be able to manage distances.

Any help would be appreciated please
Thank you

Again, it tracks the movement and speed of the phone, not the person. If your DD (for example) leaves her phone in a taxi, you won't know where she is. If your DH is mugged and his phone is stolen, you won't know where he is, just where his phone is (or last was).

I just don't understand how tracking someone's movements is a good thing or provides any reassurance - it just seems to make people more paranoid.

My friend is a very anxious parent and she checks her children’s locations a lot!
It does them no harm but reassures her they got the bus, made it from A-B etc.
I think she uses the find my phone feature on apple.

Me as well. If we all had tracking chips, missing kids would be easier to find. Get them deactivated as adults if they want.

How would you have felt being chipped and tracked as a child?

That'll be stalk ....

I think it’s reassuring for people to know their kids made it to school or are on their way home.

Should a child not return home, you would know their last location which would be helpful. Imagine not knowing when you had the technology to know.

For anyone about to say ‘but it’s so unlikely’, lots of things are unlikely. A candle in a container burning down my house is unlikely, but I still blow the damn thing out.

Should a child not return home, you would know their last location which would be helpful. Imagine not knowing when you had the technology to know.

But you wouldn't know their last location, you'd know the last location of their phone - they're very different things. I personally think tracking provides false reassurance because of that. People think "oh, I can see little Susie there" but you can't, really, that's just where their phone is placed.

I wouldn't have cared? Silly question asking someone that who likes the idea.

Really? So as a teen you wouldn't have cared if your parents had seen every single location of yours? No privacy, nothing? Wow.

This is actually insane levels of tracking.

I think the last location of their phone is also helpful.

I have live track on my watch when I go running. I doubt anyone thinks that is weird.

I can see how its sensible in circumstances where there is a higher risk of accident... such as a hill walker or long distance cyclist. Or an airbag sort of thing on a toddler who might run off in a busy place, or an person with dementia.

But not for just seeing where a child or teen is, because it would be false reassurance.
And definitely not to satisfy a parents anxiety.

I’m on Snapchat with my kids so I know where they are.

I left home at 16 dear. I don't think my parents would have given a shit.

Why do people always jump to teenagers when someone's talking about small humans? It's weird.

I think there's a huge difference between tracking someone who is out running alone in an isolated location, and tracking someone while they just go about their daily lives.

DH is a cyclist and as a tracker on his watch and can press a button to alert me that he's had an accident and needs help, but that's nothing like me being able to see where he is when he goes to the shops or round his dads'. It's just so utterly bizarre to me that anyone would want to be tracked like that.

@DeskJotter the point was to the poster who said you can only see where the phone is.
Absolutely true and if you're tracking for safety this is obviously not fail safe.
However as I Said you can see "movement* and type of movement so if my child was in the park I would see movement or in a car ie you can tell when they are or their phone is stationary. Not that the explanation matters because folks aren't reading posts anyways

You're the one who talked about deactivating the chip as an adult

The small humans you're tracking won't stay small forever, they'll be teenage humans who need independence and freedom in order to grow. They won't get that if mummy and daddy can track their every movement.

I’ve used it for my daughter before when she got lost after the metro broke down. I could see exactly where she was and so could give her directions to a bus she could get. Problem solved. It’s not like I’m watching her comings and goings 24/7. It’s just useful on occasion.

Exactly - it's helicopter parenting to the extreme.

There are posts on here everyday about young people lacking resilience and having anxiety - I mean, it's no bloody wonder if they're tracked everywhere they go and can't be trusted to go out with their friends without being followed from a distance.

You don’t need tags to increase children’s safety. You need common sense, life skills, and the ability to assess risk.

So you can see where they are and they can see where you are, really useful if needing to meet each other, especially in the countryside or at a busy carnival.

We just use find my iPhone - we being us and our adult child who still live at home.

there’s no trust issues which is why we use it - it was very useful for seeing where they were at 2am/3am when they first started going out drinking - still in a club/at someone’s house/at home in bed - not in a ditch/hospital/police station 😂

Google maps. We are all on android phones.

It would allow you to share your location all the time or allow you to share your location for certain lengths of time. You get to choose. Ds1 is 22 he doesn't share his location with me but does permanently share his location with Dh because they travel into the city together for work by car and they track each other for meeting up for lifts.

For us it tracked the phone in case it was lost but I never felt the need to watch my children walking to school on Google maps.

You track your DH??

Oh and the dc track me more often than I track them - if I pop into Aldi on the way home from work you can guarantee I’ll get messages making food requests.