Would you lilke to keep tabs on your kids via GPRS?

[ali_kat]

Carthage said:

Our society would be a much happier place if we'd all stop believing that men are predatory paedophiles looking for boys and girls to attack.

[Kateg28]

I thought I read an article this morning (but cannot find it again) where parents are forbidden from taking photos of their teens at their prom as the photos might end up on social media sights.

What flummoxes me is what would that do? If my son appeared in a photo on a website (which he does regularly for his hobby) why does this put him at risk? A person of ill intentions can walk down a high street and see real teens if they want. I just don't understand the risk of photos on the internet (excluding unclothed pictures or doing NSFW activities etc)

[R2T2]

ali_kat said:

Phew, at 21 I was worried you were like the interns I'm dealing with... Can read, cannot comprehend. Can write, cannot spell. Have been molly coddled, have no common sense!

R2T2 said:

I think that the media to blow it ridiclously out of proportion and basically terrify parents into molly coddling their kids through fear of them being adducted or something along those lines.

Absolutely!

This thread is the result!!

I am glad to say that I am the exact opposite!

I am a 21 year old with common sense, and when it comes to money too!

[ali_kat]

Kateg28 said:

I thought I read an article this morning (but cannot find it again) where parents are forbidden from taking photos of their teens at their prom as the photos might end up on social media sights.

What flummoxes me is what would that do? If my son appeared in a photo on a website (which he does regularly for his hobby) why does this put him at risk? A person of ill intentions can walk down a high street and see real teens if they want. I just don't understand the risk of photos on the internet (excluding unclothed pictures or doing NSFW activities etc)

I know that some my friends that are parents have been told not to take photos of Nativity plays/School Sports day etc!

[Moonhawk]

ali_kat said:

I know that some my friends that are parents have been told not to take photos of Nativity plays/School Sports day etc!

I suspect such policies are borne more out the fear of litigation than fear of abuse.

[Timmy40]

Moonhawk said:

ali_kat said:

I know that some my friends that are parents have been told not to take photos of Nativity plays/School Sports day etc!

I suspect such policies are borne more out the fear of litigation than fear of abuse.

Being a slight devils advocate if it encourages parents to put down their smartphones and actually watch the play/sportsday is that such a bad thing?

[Impasse]

ali_kat said:

Kateg28 said:

I thought I read an article this morning (but cannot find it again) where parents are forbidden from taking photos of their teens at their prom as the photos might end up on social media sights.

What flummoxes me is what would that do? If my son appeared in a photo on a website (which he does regularly for his hobby) why does this put him at risk? A person of ill intentions can walk down a high street and see real teens if they want. I just don't understand the risk of photos on the internet (excluding unclothed pictures or doing NSFW activities etc)

I know that some my friends that are parents have been told not to take photos of Nativity plays/School Sports day etc!

Some of the other kids in the school maybe subject to Social Services intervention whereby the single parent family is fleeing from domestic violence or even potential abduction of the kids.
If the violent/unstable parent/adult had an inkling of the approximate area of where the family where currently living then it wouldn't be too much of an internet trawl to dig up more specific information.

Tenuous, yes. But a very real situation for far too many.

[WestyCarl]

ali_kat said:

Kateg28 said:

I thought I read an article this morning (but cannot find it again) where parents are forbidden from taking photos of their teens at their prom as the photos might end up on social media sights.

What flummoxes me is what would that do? If my son appeared in a photo on a website (which he does regularly for his hobby) why does this put him at risk? A person of ill intentions can walk down a high street and see real teens if they want. I just don't understand the risk of photos on the internet (excluding unclothed pictures or doing NSFW activities etc)

I know that some my friends that are parents have been told not to take photos of Nativity plays/School Sports day etc!

The explanation for this at my kids school was that they have some kids that are "at risk" and they need to protect them and don't want them appearing in the background, etc.

[Carthage]

WestyCarl said:

The explanation for this at my kids school was that they have some kids that are "at risk" and they need to protect them and don't want them appearing in the background, etc.

Yes, I've had students who were given new identities because a parent was likely to harm them if they were found.

[ali_kat]

Carthage said:

WestyCarl said:

The explanation for this at my kids school was that they have some kids that are "at risk" and they need to protect them and don't want them appearing in the background, etc.

Yes, I've had students who were given new identities because a parent was likely to harm them if they were found.

And yet others are worried about the 'wierdo, peadophile "bogeyman"'

What harm can the tracking device do if installed (without knowledge) on the child (child's phone) prior to the removal of the child?

[Carthage]

The irony in all of this is that a child is most likely to be harmed by its own parent/s than a complete stranger.
The same is true in relationships.

Some might therefore say that tracking them reduces the child's ability to escape.

[Don]

ali_kat said:

Dr Murdoch said:

I could see the benefit up until the age when they can go off with friends. Mine are 2 and 3, and it would be useful to have the comfort that if they did disappear from sight that you could quickly locate them, be it in a supermarket, high street wherever. Its not happened to me, but I have seen the sheer panic in other parents faces when they have lost sight of their toddler.

When they grow older I hope they are brought up sufficiently well enough to be trusted.

You'd give a toddler a phone?

No need.

https://www.thetileapp.com/

Not a total solution, I admit, but would assist with line-of-sight issues.

[ali_kat]

Don said:

No need.

https://www.thetileapp.com/

Not a total solution, I admit, but would assist with line-of-sight issues.

That, IMHO, is even more dangerous in the outline by Carthage!

[steve_bmw]

A friend of mine has two boys 11 and 12, they are of an age where they are starting to go off on there bikes ect and they both have iPhones, the parents have hidden find my friends app in a folder so they don't know it's there, it is handy if they are late back to find out where they are.
I would probably do the same when my boy is older.

[Luke Warm]

steve_bmw said:

A friend of mine has two boys 11 and 12, they are of an age where they are starting to go off on there bikes ect and they both have iPhones, the parents have hidden find my friends app in a folder so they don't know it's there, it is handy if they are late back to find out where they are.
I would probably do the same when my boy is older.

If you really have to know where they are, why not call them and ask?

[WinstonWolf]

Luke Warm said:

steve_bmw said:

A friend of mine has two boys 11 and 12, they are of an age where they are starting to go off on there bikes ect and they both have iPhones, the parents have hidden find my friends app in a folder so they don't know it's there, it is handy if they are late back to find out where they are.
I would probably do the same when my boy is older.

If you really have to know where they are, why not call them and ask?

Teenagers and phones. When you want them they rarely answer, when they want something the phone rings off the wall...

[DannyScene]

steve_bmw said:

A friend of mine has two boys 11 and 12, they are of an age where they are starting to go off on there bikes ect and they both have iPhones, the parents have hidden find my friends app in a folder so they don't know it's there, it is handy if they are late back to find out where they are.
I would probably do the same when my boy is older.

They're kids with technology they almost definitely know the app is there but they have iPhones which presumably they don't pay for so probably aren't bothered

[Don]

WinstonWolf said:

Teenagers and phones. When you want them they rarely answer, when they want something the phone rings off the wall...

Google "Ignore No More". They'll answer.

[WinstonWolf]

Don said:

WinstonWolf said:

Teenagers and phones. When you want them they rarely answer, when they want something the phone rings off the wall...

Google "Ignore No More". They'll answer.

Nice!

[Terminator X]

Why stop there though OP, small microchip inserted at birth is surely the answer?

TX.