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Would you track your kids with a Little Buddy Child Tracker?
The Little Buddy Child Tracker is a GPS device that you can put in your kid's backpack. It can be set to notify parents of when the child leaves the location. Would you track your children with a device like this?
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October 28, 2009 04:42 AM
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Chock this up to an education in criminal justice, but I think those devices serve as a false sense of security. Just like keys in fake rocks, child predators will learn about these devices, and start checking for them. The police then chase down the device only to find it tossed into the woods as a diversion. My skin crawled when I heard people talking about trackers under kids' skin, like what we put in pets, because all I could imagine was kids cut open so predators could find their GPS device.
Kids should be taught to kick and scream if someone tries to take them, and that it is never, ever okay to wander away or stalk away angry. They should be taught to never get into anyone's car, never go with a stranger, even if the stranger knows details about them, and to never give personal facts about themselves to anyone. If a child is trained in proper safety, you don't have to worry as much about whether or not he keeps his backpack on, or what other people are doing. He's as self-sufficient as you can make a kid. I think that's safer in the long run.
Kids should be taught to kick and scream if someone tries to take them, and that it is never, ever okay to wander away or stalk away angry. They should be taught to never get into anyone's car, never go with a stranger, even if the stranger knows details about them, and to never give personal facts about themselves to anyone. If a child is trained in proper safety, you don't have to worry as much about whether or not he keeps his backpack on, or what other people are doing. He's as self-sufficient as you can make a kid. I think that's safer in the long run.
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October 27, 2009 11:52 PM
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Absolutely not. I know they sound like a good idea, and I know the companies are pandering to our greatest fears with these devices. I started with RFD chips for dogs. Get us used to the idea with our beloved pets, and then move on to locaters for our kids. Then it's chips for our kids, and then, down the road, it's mandatory chips for all US citizens.
Not to sound too much like I'm wearing a tinfoil hat here, these big companies are acclimating us to it a little at a time.
We already have chips in our passports (the new ones) to keep track of us. It won't be long now until it's in our Driver's Licenses, and then eventually, on our person.
And they are gearing us toward it in the name of safety.... because what more precious of a commodity is there but our children, literally our future. Of course we don't want to 'lose' our children.
It terrifies me.
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Not to sound too much like I'm wearing a tinfoil hat here, these big companies are acclimating us to it a little at a time.
We already have chips in our passports (the new ones) to keep track of us. It won't be long now until it's in our Driver's Licenses, and then eventually, on our person.
And they are gearing us toward it in the name of safety.... because what more precious of a commodity is there but our children, literally our future. Of course we don't want to 'lose' our children.
It terrifies me.
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October 28, 2009 12:34 AM
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Not as a general rule, but I have absolutely been in positions where I felt I could very easily lose track of my child, and thought it would be great to have something like this.
I know many parents who read this might think that I am just being a negligent parent, but I am not. In some large parks there are quite large play sets for kids (big as a house) where parents cannot go. Am I to not let my child have fun with the rest of the kids? A simple tracker to see when he might have wandered out of the general area would be a huge load off my mind.
I think that the idea that this simple idea leads to the government tracking us is a little paranoid, and it can only happen if we let it happen.
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I know many parents who read this might think that I am just being a negligent parent, but I am not. In some large parks there are quite large play sets for kids (big as a house) where parents cannot go. Am I to not let my child have fun with the rest of the kids? A simple tracker to see when he might have wandered out of the general area would be a huge load off my mind.
I think that the idea that this simple idea leads to the government tracking us is a little paranoid, and it can only happen if we let it happen.
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