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Parental Paranoia: Are We All Crazy?

By Marc On April 1, 2014 · Add Comment

It’s very hip to be terrified of letting your children outside without wrapping them in a giant bubble and adding a GPS tracker to make sure they’re not hurt or kidnapped. Because none of us remember a childhood where we were allowed outside alone and weren’t kidnapped and/or murdered, OR WORSE. Oh wait, that was every day of the week, not too long ago. The newest scare tactic is spreading via Facebook, and shows how the ridiculous stickers on your car are putting your entire family at risk. This idea is lampooned wonderfully over at BoingBoing: No one’s saying that this has ever happened, just that they can imagine it, and if they can imagine it, bad guys can imagine it, and if you can imagine a bad guy doing something bad, then you should drop everything to prevent that imaginary thing from coming true. When in trouble/Or in doubt/Run in [...]

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Alert.Us Child Tracking App Aims To Be Popular With Adults And Kids

By Faith O'Neil On April 23, 2013 · Add Comment

As parents, we all know at least a little about the kid tracking apps on the market these days. Even if your children (like mine) are too young to use them just yet, it is likely that you have come across them in the app store or in the news. As it turns out, even though it is for their own good, older children aren’t huge fans of knowing that their parents are tracking their movement, online activity, and phone calls. Now, Alert.Us has released a child-tracking app that they claim kids will not only like, but grow to accept and recommend. The app currently offers the normal features that we usually see in a child-tracking app, such as a geo-fenced alerting system, and an emergency alert button that, when pressed, can notify a pre-set list of contacts with a message. Alert.Us also touts a few features that haven’t [...]

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