Children'swatches which are also tracking devices.

[JollyPirate]

Apparently these watches not only act as a tracking device but will send an alarm if your child goes out of a pre-defined range!

I did wonder if the parent has a corresponding device which can send an electrical "zap" if the child does this.

Or am I being wicked?

I suppose there will be a market for these but not sure I'd use one. Might be good if you have a child who wanders.

A friend of mine whose son is autistic has terrible problems because he wanders off - her attention can be taken for nano seconds and he will be gone. She has got around this by giving him a mobile phone which he will usually answer if she can't find him. On one memorable occasion when in town he disappeared - she was frantic, the police were called to help, he wouldn't answer the mobile and eventually he was found nearly half a mile away looking at the televisions in a shop. Horrible experience for my friend and so I suspect she would love this device.

I saw this yesterday and the paper was very disparaging about the kind of parent who might feel we lived in the sort of World where this is really needed.........

but if it set my mind at ease so that I could let the children go to their Dad's without worrying I may never see them again..... WELL. I can't have been the onl one reading the article thinking 'i'd buy them '.

I would only use it with a severely autistic child.

For NT children, I think it would be a serious mistake. And tbh I don't want to know every little detail of their lives, anyway.

Is what you're thistalking about? I read it to DH and the first thing he said was - "Where can we get one?".

Can also definitely see the benefit in older people and those with SEN using them.

Noooo, where will it all end? They need FREEDOM.

Agree about their usefulness for children with SN and those elderly people who are prone to wandering though.

?Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?? sounds like a scare slogan. I don't like it.

But thinking from a 'snatched child' POV, it would just get taken off, surely.

But in other situations it's a good idea imo.