"The sudden realization of my total lack of control over what might happen to my child out there in the world. Obviously, none of us really has total control over our kids' safety, even when they're physically with us, but that fact just became terrifyingly real to me in that moment. I couldn't control what happened, but at least I could see where he was."
"I've read that some people consider tracking their kids' location an invasion of their privacy, but I honestly don't know a single parent who doesn't use an app to track their teenager. To me, it's just part of modern-day parenting. When our kids were little, I had no problem with the old-school free-range method our parents had in the 80s."
A parent describes downloading a location-tracking app after her son received his driver's license, experiencing anxiety about losing control over his safety once he could drive independently. She installed Life360 to monitor his real-time location, which her son accepted without resistance. The parent acknowledges that while some view location tracking as a privacy invasion, she doesn't know parents who don't use such apps for their teenagers. She contrasts this with her own childhood in the 1980s when free-range parenting was common, but views tracking as necessary given modern driving risks and the independence teenagers gain with their own vehicles.
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