Hi,There are alot of new products out there specifically targeting the absent and paranoid parent market.
I'm all for parents wanting the best for their kids - but is monitoring their location and habits using technology really good for them?
You can buy your teenager a cell-phone with an inbuilt GPS locater.
Or if you're willing to forego subtelty you can just get them to wear a GPS bracelet.
This technology was developed for monitoring felons on home detention and tracking valuable property. Maybe we should just implant microchips in their necks and be done with it.
Are we now looking at an age where you don't have to build a trust based relationship with your kids? Why spend all that time when you can just Google them?
Nothing like the old laziness versus good parenting debate.
Personally I blame the teachers... It serves them right for actually paying attention to my children.
NP Out
P.S. I'm glad my parents aren't monitoring this blog post.
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Yeah - what the hell, implant a GPS locater into everyone. Then, we can report things like suspicious adulterous behavior, people running from a crime scene, people being in Muslim mosques etc.. etc...
I like it!
ah, the Determinist bet me to it. I was gonna say these would be great products for keeping track of wayward husbands/wives - though for the latter they'd have to look like beautiful jewellery. For the former, maybe they could be disguised in a designer cigarette lighter...
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