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

Bless you. You know tracking chips don't exist don't you?. You don't need to overthink it.

I like the idea, no amount of handwringing is going to stop me liking the idea.

Heh I get that.

Well, yeah - I'm still allowed to find it disturbing that people think they're a good idea.

If you think that's "hand-wringing" then maybe you're the one taking it all a bit seriously, it's just an internet debate

For all sorts of reasons, such as timing dinner?

You can see them moving, so it’s not difficult to work out if someone is heading home…

I was very late to getting it compared to others I know, and it has made our lives much easier. Someone has asked for recommendations , not judging by people who have never used it. Typical mn.

I'm sure it'll keep me awake at 3am flower.

Of course I can, they usually have their phones with them. Why would we not use it because one of us might leave our phone somewhere occasionally? We don’t use it for ‘safety’ or to be stalkerish.

Moochie did a phone watch for kids that had GPS. But I think they've gone out of business. There might be some other sort of watch that has the same functions OP.

You're missing my point completely - which is that it provides a false sense of security. All they need to do is lose or break their phone, or (heaven forbid) have it stolen, and you think they're fine as you can see their phone is at the park on the bus, but in reality your child may not be there as well.

X-post with your edit about lost phones.

You’re missing my point, that I’m not using it for ‘safety’. But to make life easier. As stated in my original post.

I guess I just don't see how it makes life easier, but each to their own.

Kidsy on android is really good. You can also listen in and hear where they are too. (The person gets a notification of this)

Dd has a smart watch with an sos button and a video call option, also does tracking. We were both apprehensive about her starting to go to park alone, this gives her option that she can call me if needed.
It's a blackview watch btw

Listen into your DC’s conversations?

Surely not? That's a terrible idea.

We all have the life360 app on our phones. Both parents and both teens - even the one that pays for his own phone now.

It’s saved me hours sat in the school car park when they’re late home from a sports fixture, saved me from putting tea on too soon when their train has been delayed etc.

I’m not tracking them constantly and don’t have any misconceptions about it keeping them safe but it is very handy.

Jesus.

If they have a phone why can’t they call or text to say they will be late home? Why do you think it’s appropriate to track their movements - what would you do if they were somewhere you didn’t think they should be - ie in the pub instead of at sports practice, skipping achy?

Your daughter was old enough that you were happy for her to travel on the metro alone, and to have a smartphone, but yet you didn’t think to equip her with the knowledge of how to figure out an alternative way home, especially given the technology she had in her pocket that would easily allow her to do this?? And the ‘problem-solving’ was for her to call Mummy?? She hasn’t learned any basic life-skills from that incident, and it’s probably just made her more dependent, not more independent. No wonder youngsters can’t cope with basic life situations these days.

I find all the normalising of tracking kids and partners and listening to their conversations really horrifying and downright insidious.

Thank God I grew up in the 80s and 90s and spent my free time playing down fields!

Not yet but it wont be long.

Yes, she does normally have these skills and travels independently all the time. However, she’s also ND and will have a panic attack if she gets too stressed. That day, the transport system went tits up in a spectacularly British fashion which meant there also ended up being thousands of drunk football fans around too. Don’t be so judgmental 🙄

*stalk

What if they’re not young enough to be with those people all the time then? But not old enough for a smart phone?

OP depending on age, the XPlora watch is really good - you can see everything the kid does, they can only message or call people on a safe list, tracks them etc. It’s all controlled from parents’ phone but kid has freedom to meet up with friends, go to park after school etc. There’s a school mode where it locks down everything except SOS call.

Tracking wise, obviously that’s only going to track where the device is, not where the child is. But if my kid gets in a sticky situation I’d rather they be able to press a button and do an SOS call to me, then me be able to see where they are, rather than not. Call me crazy! 🤷‍♀️

There have been occasions when their game hasn’t finished until after they were due back at school. They would call me in situations like that, but if I was relying on that I’d already be sat in the school car park obliviously.

They’re getting older and make their own decisions. If they want to skip practice then that’s on them.

I certainly don’t track their every move. They don’t track mine or DH’s either but sometimes it can be handy to know where everyone is.

We’re all different. It works for us.

Bloody hell. This is some black mirror type insanity.

LIFE360 family circle that everyone knows they are on is the way imo.

Having location turned on so it works is a condition of me paying for their phones in our house.