Does everyone track their children?

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Is everyone tracking their child now? I had a few people surprised on another group because I said I don’t agree with tracking my children. In school they were talking about. I can see the appeal for a younger child a toddler maybe or a child thats a runner. But are we all just tracking our school age children now? (even if that doesn’t apply)

Also - huge difference between these two- the mother is responsible and has a duty for her child’s safety —-
What is the practical difference between your mother checking it often and asking you about where youve been, and a controlling partner doing the same thing?

In that scenario the "child" was a full grown adult with adult children of her own... so what is the difference and how are young people supposed to spot the difference?

She'll turn her location off or leave her phone behind next time...

No I never have. I wouldn’t like the thought of someone tracking me so I wouldn’t do it to them.
They always let me know where they are going and I can call them if I want to know exactly where they are.

They can just turn it off. Actually dd2 has disabled her find my phone in the name of human rights! Fine by me but if she wants to be rescued she’s on her own !

Never tracked mine.

I know people who still track their adult kids, which strikes me as a terrible invasion of their privacy, but I guess it's ok if their children are ok with it.

I would not ever allow anyone to track me. Not because I have anything to hide - I don't! - but because I just hate the idea of it.

I track my child. She has always had equal tracking ability on me. It’s not a feature to monitor behavior, it’s a tool anyone in the family can occasionally use, mostly to assist the person being tracked.

Personally find find my phone invaluable if I misplace my phone which as a peri menopause woman always dashing around I tend to do. Reassuring to know it’s in the house

My oldest is 20 and i still have her on find my. My mum is 60 and my hubby is 45 and i have them on it too. I don’t spend every minute tracking them but it’s handy to check they got home okay or are late at work etc

Both me and my DD who is 24 track each other. Well our phones really. She travels to the city, not London, a lot and also goes on long walks alone. She takes the dog but he’s a Chorky so not much use if anything untoward happens.
She tracks me too and we both feel it gives us some peace of mind knowing where each other is if we’re late.
I take on board what ops are saying about normalising tracking and opening it up to being used by an abusive partner for tracking someone’s every move but that’s something to be discussed about another time.

I have AirTags in our cars because I have this crazy notion that if someone stole one, I could chase it down. However, it does mean we know roughly where the family are by the location of the car. We don’t often look but I think DP finds it comforting to know where the offspring are.

I sometimes work away from home so he knows I’m either safely at work or in my digs. Though he did see I was parked for hours by a hospital, eventually got DS1 to call to see if I was okay. I pointed out it was a children’s hospital and work have spaces in a nearby car park…

DS2 shares his location with his GF and vice versa.

We don't track ours. Eldest is 11 and walks to school with a friend, and the deal is she texts when she gets there. I get wh people do it, but for us her managing without being watched felt like the bigger lesson. The AirTag in the sports bag though - that I might steal, ours lives at the bottom of the swimming pool changing rooms.