re: Life360 App - Do any parents use this w/ their kids?

We use the paid version

Lol wtf

My SIL has it for their family circus. She also installed it on her husband's phone. Yep.

F THAT

I'll one up most here. I'm 38 and have it on my phone for my wife and parents. Son is not old enough for a phone yet. I hunt a lot of remote locations with terrible cell service and the whole family does a lot of traveling. For us it isn't a trust thing it is a useful safety thing. A couple of years ago my wife totaled her car and was shaken enough she couldn't give me good directions. It helped me find her and my kids. Since then I'm a huge advocate.

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I know it's tough, but eventually you gotta let go......

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You missed my post after that one. I am in my mid 40s, my kids are teenagers.

I also have a dog that walks the neighborhood and other places with me, he does not need to be on a leash. Never runs away, never chases a car, etc. He wasn't always that way. In fact when he was young, at the house, he didn't even like a leash. He would pull and pull, wouldn't come when called and couldn't be trusted to be left alone for a second. As his parent, I taught him what he could and could not get away with and how to act properly. I gave him more and more freedom to make his own choices. Sometimes it was a struggle because he would F up but he would suffer the consequences. The bigger the F up the bigger the consequences. Eventually he learned what was expected of him, and how to act like a productive member of our household and society. He slowly but steadily learned my trust and I his. Before he was a year old, I was able to let him follow me around on my walks and in the yard without any fear that he was going to do what he was not supposed to.

I was his teacher and his leader, and just like dogs children need a teacher and a leader to follow.

My neighbors have asked several times how I got that giant dog to behave so well, bc they can't trust theirs to not pull them down the street on a leash much less roam around the yard unattended. I can only tell them that it takes time, patience, leadership, education and mutually earned trust.

I have also told some of them, it might be too late for their dogs. They have grown up their while lives tethered to a leash never having to make their own choices or mistakes, or learn the consequences of such.
That has to be a pretty miserable existence for a dog, much less a child.

Is this some new Soviet style of parenting?

This thread is terrifying.

Older people shite on kids constantly about how they act, and they don't realize they are creating these helpless idiots.

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Yeah for my daughter. I don’t use it but her mom does. Notifies her if she’s speeding, hard braking, her location. Lol it’s a bit much

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If you see it’s at an ICE office, do you just cut bait?

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The dude who shits on the younger generation for being sheltered snowflakes is actively making his kid the same thing he hates.

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The truth right here.