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Google releases smart watch for kids
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Re: Google releases smart watch for kids
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Fair enough! Something to watch for I suppose.
I think you've sort of missed the forest for the trees, here. If you've gotten to the point where the kid is hiding a phone from you, you're already in an adversarial relationship with a young adult who has lost trust in your ability to be a reasonable authority figure.
Agreed -- best course of action is to develop a healthy relationship with the kid to avoid this situation all-together.
Besides, I am pro dumbphone and don't plan on reading my kids' texts so I don't think these scenarios are applicable.
Re: Google releases smart watch for kids
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>As I recall, a big part of growing up was spending time and doing things my parents didn’t want me to do. a big part of parenting is making sure your kid actually is at school, or monitoring more closely a child that has done improper things.
In the 80's/90's if I was somewhere I shouldn't be or doing something that I shouldn't there was a 70% chance that when I got home my mother would know. The neighbourhood network of eyes was more powerful than googles all seeing eyes.
are you under the impression that the same neighborhood network of eyes is in operation all over the place like it was then or?
Also - when my daughter hacks all of her ex-boyfriend's social media accounts, should I monitor her activities by going and talking to the snooping neighbors?
Re: Google releases smart watch for kids
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Oh jeez. I'm so glad i had none of this goofy tracking gump growing up. If teenage me had something that tracked every location, and I knew it, and my friends had them on too, I'd probably miss out on a lot of stuff I cherish. I had time limits, and a hard immovable low budget that made a lot of the bad stuff impossible. The rest was up to us to figure out and learn and improvise as we go. I'm better for those learni…
To be fair: the only reason I want trackers for my kids is so that I can find them if (a) they run off and get lost; or, (b) they get nabbed. The average small child can't say what Dad's phone number is, or even his full name. Young kids have really limited awareness of their surroundings, and can get lost very easily. Add multiple kids into the mix and it can be a real challenge to keep them all together when you're…
> The average small child can't say what Dad's phone number is, or even his full name.
There's a solution for this already. Face tattoos.
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Re: Google releases smart watch for kids
#675Children don't participate in sports anymore because of tech, so we created tech to counter other tech so they go outside more.
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#676Ugh, I threw up a little in my mouth just from the headline. This constant tracking of kids is unnecessary and dangerous. Generations of kids survived without their parents needing to know their location at all times. And yes, I totally admit, some kids (very few actually depending on the locale) didn't survive. But we've traded this false sense of "safety" for kids that are so risk averse it is seriously negatively…
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#677Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do not know the ages of your children but i fear for them if/when they're teenagers. A small child does not care, a teenager _very much does and should_. Will you still track them when they're 25? Or 30? What if they ask you to stop, what will you do? I gained very very significant experiences by lying to my parents about where i was. I never got hurt, not once, we were never running from the cops or anything and i…
Will you still track them when they're 25? Or 30? You think someone keeping track of their small child means they will somehow track their location when the child is 30 years old?
Oh, absolutely. Basically all parents treat their children as just that, children, regardless of their age.
Re: Google releases smart watch for kids
#678Children don't participate in sports anymore because of tech, so we created tech to counter other tech so they go outside more.
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Re: Google releases smart watch for kids
#679Ugh, I threw up a little in my mouth just from the headline. This constant tracking of kids is unnecessary and dangerous. Generations of kids survived without their parents needing to know their location at all times. And yes, I totally admit, some kids (very few actually depending on the locale) didn't survive. But we've traded this false sense of "safety" for kids that are so risk averse it is seriously negatively…
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Re: Google releases smart watch for kids
#680Anyone else who would be uncomfortable opting your child into location, behavior and health surveillance by the world's largest advertising company?
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