Tracking kids and stuff with airtags?

Have one on my 43 hp deere at the farm, and one on my keys.

I do exactly this, but with Tile trackers. One advantage is that, particularly outside the US, Android is far more popular than Apple iPhones. Tile works with both.

I have an airtag on all of my luggage, in my ex-wife's expensive purses, in my passport holder, on my kid's bike, on my truck keys, etc. Been using Tile for almost a decade, no real complaints. There is a lot of selection in terms of format (wider and skinny, or lots of range and thicker, etc.)

Before I got my 10yo an Apple watch, when I wanted him to bike back home, I'd just go in the Tile app and ring the tag on his bike, which he'd usually hear if he wasn't inside someone's house. That was his bat signal. Sort of useless, because I knew within biking distance of the house, there were only three or four places he would go, but it gave me the knowledge to fact check him, "I know you left XXX's house 20 minutes ago, and it's a three minute bike ride."

Get them on sale (valentine's day, father's day, etc.) and you can get four or five of them for under $100. There is actually a New Year's sale going on now.

Yes, usually I'm the last phone near the tractor so the app will show the location and the last time it was pinged. If someone moved it and a phone hit it I would see the updated location and time. The down side of the app is there doesn't seem to be an alert if someone else's phone were to ping it, which in my case would indicate a trespasser.

I have them on small things (keys, wallet, Apple TV remote)

We have something called a jiobit the nanny uses on the stroller when she takes the toddler out for long walks in the neighborhood, which has real time tracking of where they're at.

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Anyone else use these things on kids

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I have one on a wristband (looks like a watch) for my youngest. He has a tendency to wander off. He's gotten better, but I still put it on him if we are going somewhere like a sporting event. I like the airtags b/c they can ping off any iphone. It's been helpful before when I've left things behind like airpods. However, I prefer the size variety of the Tile. I really want one in my wallet. But I am curious what the coverage is like with Tile vs Airtag if something is lost. I feel like there are many more iphone users than Tile users so the recovery of a lost tile might be harder.

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If you turn on "Family Sharing" then the people in your family group can indeed see and use them as well.

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Not for an airtag. Unless something recently changed, this is the biggest knock on them imo as the location isn't something you can share.

I ordered a cover so that one fits in my remote so my kid quits losing it.

If Apple were a person, I would consider it to be psychotic that they don't allow parents to share airtags.