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

Hi would this Life 360 work if DS is on a school trip abroad?

I’ve no idea - I would never track my DH or DC’s.

@GEF1969 are they actually allowed mobile phones during the school trip? I know at my child Secondary they are allowed them on the coach there and back but not during the trip

Life 360 is the best

Hi would the Life 360 also work abroad if I am in the UK and DS on a school trip to Europe

@GEF1969 yes my husband regularly travels for work and it does work in Europe

Just because a device makes policework easier during an unlikely event doesn’t mean it’s good for a child’s development day in day out.

Great thank you I will look into it as I have an I Phone and he has a Samsung so need something that will work - not very techy so hope it easy to use

Guessing the Life 360 only works if he has his phone on him though maybe I need an actual little tracker that would fit in his bag? Such a mind field

i use 360. Works ok.

fwiw I hate tracking too and would have hated it as a teen.
But my dd (12) walks an hour a day on her own, we are often at work.
it gives her more freedom to go out with her friends after school.
I only look at it if she hasn’t turned up in the right place, she is ok with this.
It feels like a necessary evil to me. If I didn’t have to work in another city I wouldn’t feel the need to track her

Im sure those parents who's child vanished never to be seen again would agree with you.

Guessing the Life 360 only works if he has his phone on him though maybe I need an actual little tracker that would fit in his bag?

And what if he hasn't got his bag on him? Or he leaves it behind somewhere?

Thank you is this the free one or do you have to have one of the packages that come with a fee? Many thanks.

Yes it’s free. There is an upgraded version you can pay for but we’ve never needed it

If they wander off or get lost you can find them?

Christ, no wonder Brits love our Big Brother surveillance society: it starts at home! Big Mother is watching you...!

Next up, microchipping children (chips hackable by the state and other interested parties).

But you know, smart"phone"s are and always were essentially disguised tracking devices with extras, so at least now we're getting right to the point!

People spying on their own family members, with or without their knowledge or consent... Utterly horrifying. All this shit goes far beyond anything Orwell could have imagined.

IKR? Deeply sinister.

We have Life360. My son is a young teen and AuDHD. He NEEDS to know where I am at all times and I like to keep an eye when he does his biking hobby (not alone, with a regular group) and as he cycles to school a short distance, I like to know he’s arrived because it doesn’t take very much at all for him to forget he’s going to school and go and do something else. Nothing weird at all. It’s safety for me and security for him. I imagine that by the time he’s 16 he won’t want it and that will be fine. My ex husband was tracked with various tech to the most terrifying extent by the OW. At one point a go-pro was involved. Plus phone, not allowed to use WhatsApp as she couldn’t track it and cameras in the car. I recall one particular incident where he’d forgotten to give me son’s book bag. This necessitated a u turn to our house. The utter panic on his face when he threw the bag at me because he knew she was watching….what a way to live.

How old? If my child got lost using public transport, I’d hope I’d taught them how to either figure it out for themselves or knew to ask a member of staff for directions. These are important skills and won’t be learnt if a parent wades in at the smallest problem.

She was 11 and normally she’d be fine but the metro happened to be full of hundreds of pisshead football fans so it was all a bit chaotic

I didn't post for judgement. Just information. But to clarify because I feel like I need to justify myself, my children have disabilities, both get taxi transport to and from school, one is an hours drive away and though she can text me to say she's stuck in traffic, wouldnt be able to tell me where. Also often falls asleep in the taxi.

Definitely isnt done secretly, they know. Im just trying to keep my children safe, know where they are on their journeys. My daughter and me have a very specific routine when she gets home and I need to be at the door ready.

You absolutely don't need to justify! I totally agree with you and want one for when I take my grandson on holiday
He's 5 and could wander off or get lost and I think it's sensible to be able to track him.
I don't understand the hostility to the idea.

You don’t have to explain yourself, I am in a similar situation.

Totally agree! I'm in my late 70s and when I was growing up in a London suburb, like most kids at that time (well certainly boys) I was allowed to go and play in the street or go to the local park on my own. When I went to University I never phoned home - 'trunk' (intercity) phone calls were very expensive so I wrote a letter once a week. If my parents needed to contact me they had the phone number of my 'digs' but they never did. Midway through my course I went to the US for three months and again, one letter a week. That was the norm then. I'd have absolutely hated the idea of my parents tracking all my activities even though I had a very good relationship with them.