uh, statistically there are less crazy mfs than there were 30 years ago. we just weren’t hyper connected. so yes, I would hope they’re putting a negative spin on it. Fuck sake, my sister wouldn’t let her 16 year old boys walk to the end of the cul-de-sac for fear of them being kidnapped. This shit is so god-damned stupid.
My kid is 8. I like to let him roam free in the neighborhood, but I also want to be sure I can keep track of him, or locate him if he disappears. I don’t see how this is a bad thing.
Just because your sister is hyper vigilant, doesn’t mean having the capacity to track your children is wrong. People have different lives and live in different places. Just because this tool has no value to you doesn’t mean it is wrong.
I’m saying my mom let me go outside and play with friends when there weren’t even phones you could just put in your pocket and be available. Whoever’s yard you were hanging out at, their parents said it was dinner time and that’s how you knew to go home too.
Ya gotta have SOME level of trust for your kids, otherwise you’ll never have a healthy relationship with them.
You guys are confusing safety with surveillance because of the obvious clickbaity title of the article.
Having the option to know where your children are is not the same as controlling them. Parent intent matters and any tool can be abused, which doesn’t mean the tool is wrong.
You’re teaching your children to accept highly invasive surveillance. And for what? Just so you can surrender to a moral panic about stranger danger, when actual rates of childhood abduction and abuse are at historic lows. You’re failing to properly raise citizens of a healthy democratic society. Instead, you’re raising children to accept living in an authoritarian society. If kids grow up with their own parents spying on them, why would they ever think the government and corporations spying on them is wrong? You surrendered the freedom of your own children, just to give in to your own irrational insecurities. But you tell yourself that your case is different, that you’re violating their privacy for their own good. This is exactly what every authoritarian government tells their citizens. It’s for your own good; that’s what they always say. You are failing to teach your children to have the values necessary to be citizens in a healthy democracy.
The road to Hell is paved with “for the children.”
“surveillance-minded parents”… Are they trying to put a negative spin on it?
Knowing where your underage kid is is a must these days. Lots of crazy people out there.
Yeah. Your surveillance-minded family members.
uh, statistically there are less crazy mfs than there were 30 years ago. we just weren’t hyper connected. so yes, I would hope they’re putting a negative spin on it. Fuck sake, my sister wouldn’t let her 16 year old boys walk to the end of the cul-de-sac for fear of them being kidnapped. This shit is so god-damned stupid.
wtf at 16 I was doing vacation alone with my then girlfriend in another country were we travelled to by train lol
My kid is 8. I like to let him roam free in the neighborhood, but I also want to be sure I can keep track of him, or locate him if he disappears. I don’t see how this is a bad thing.
Just because your sister is hyper vigilant, doesn’t mean having the capacity to track your children is wrong. People have different lives and live in different places. Just because this tool has no value to you doesn’t mean it is wrong.
These days they have phones on them. Imagine raising a kid in the 90s or earlier.
Phones can be taken. It’s less improbable to the shoes to be taken.
I’m saying my mom let me go outside and play with friends when there weren’t even phones you could just put in your pocket and be available. Whoever’s yard you were hanging out at, their parents said it was dinner time and that’s how you knew to go home too.
Ya gotta have SOME level of trust for your kids, otherwise you’ll never have a healthy relationship with them.
I think you’re one of those crazy people. Honestly, no one with that level of control obsession should be allowed to have children.
You’re thinking wrong.
You guys are confusing safety with surveillance because of the obvious clickbaity title of the article.
Having the option to know where your children are is not the same as controlling them. Parent intent matters and any tool can be abused, which doesn’t mean the tool is wrong.
You’re teaching your children to accept highly invasive surveillance. And for what? Just so you can surrender to a moral panic about stranger danger, when actual rates of childhood abduction and abuse are at historic lows. You’re failing to properly raise citizens of a healthy democratic society. Instead, you’re raising children to accept living in an authoritarian society. If kids grow up with their own parents spying on them, why would they ever think the government and corporations spying on them is wrong? You surrendered the freedom of your own children, just to give in to your own irrational insecurities. But you tell yourself that your case is different, that you’re violating their privacy for their own good. This is exactly what every authoritarian government tells their citizens. It’s for your own good; that’s what they always say. You are failing to teach your children to have the values necessary to be citizens in a healthy democracy.
The road to Hell is paved with “for the children.”
They’re AirTags in shoes, dude. Kids aren’t learning to submit to authoritarians because of Sketchers, they’re just finding their shoes faster.
And that’s what the proles told each other about telescreens.
“It’s just a telescreen dood, just chill.”