Keep tabs on your kids whereabouts via cellphone
June 10, 2006 by Mike Wendland
First it was Sprit Nextel with its Family Locator Service that uses a location based tracking feature to let parents pinpoint the location of their kids on a map.
On Monday, Verizon Wireless offers a similar product called Chaperone that will do the same thing. With the Verizon feature, parents can also set up geographic limits and receive text alerts if their children go too far from home. It uses the special Migo phone from LG Electronics that is being marketed for kids.
With both services, of course, the kids must be carrying mobile phones, something more and more children between 6 and 10 years are doing these days.
Makes you wonder how we all survived in those pre-cellphone days, huh?
Our children do not need to be equipped with cellphones to keep them safe. What ever happened to parental supervision?
I think this is a great idea, but what happens when little Johnny leaves his phone at school, his friends house. or just loses it? Can the phone company make it surgically implantable?