[Solved] child tracking

Hi there,
quite interesting, I hadn't thought about these so i looked it up online..
I saw that TimesOnline had an article Child-tracking systems.

It wasn't clear from your post whether your children are teenagers or younger or older...
I would imagine that different age children might mean considering different ideas about tracking.
eg todder on a simple hand held reign....

I saw this article Would an implanted chip help to keep my child safe? and found myself wondering whether, later in life, a child might have strong reactions to being tracked without any choice (eg switch phone off, leave tracking device in the drawer by accident).
And I found a BBC article Concerns over GPS child tracking.

I would note that if a tracking system can only place the accuracy within say 500 yards, then that might not be accurate enough for a football ground where you would want to know they were 25 feet to your left. It would however give you confidence that they were still in or near the stadium, as opposed to a mile away.

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or you could use something less advanced and not so intrusive - a whistle. give your kids one, and also have one yourself. agree on simple signalling scheme that they will not forget/confuse (we have 3: stop/come back/respond). if your child gets lost (surely he/she didn't wander away that far so not to hear a whistle) just 'ask' to respond, and most def the accuracy will be better than GPS/GSM locators. Also it give your child more self assurance when he gets lost, instead of panicking and crying they at least will have a plan of actions...

might sound bit ridiculous or funny, but is very effective. it also has other uses, especially signal 'stop'. let's say you see your child running straight onto the street and he doesnt see an oncoming vehicle... you could shout, but shouting isn't usually breaking through all the city noise as a blow of a whistle.

Firstly (and thanks to my wife for this) - whenever you go anywhere like this, always have a pre-arranged plan with your children of what to do if you get separated.

I presume your child has a mobile phone? Simplest solution is to ring them.

If so, you could try www.followus.com - this allows you to track a mobile phone (accuracy depends on where you are in the country - ie. how many mobile phone masts there are) as long as it's on the main networks (Virgin isn't one of them) as long as you can get internet access (though I think it may have been updated to allow it from mobile phones) - I thinkg they may also sell tracking devices.

If they have one of the newer phones with GPS, then you can get software on their phone which allows you to send a message to their phone, and their phone will respond with the GPS co-ordinates - and assuming you have GPS on your own phone, then you can find them through this.

Maplins also sell a gadget for around £100 which is built to do this at the press of a button - it can also be used as a mobile phone to call a couple of numbers I think.

It's www.followus.co.uk (not .com) - if you look at their tracking gadgets, they make a watch that can transmit it's position to your smartphone in response to a text message sent to the watch.

I see this paragraph is quite old, but I do have the same questions at this time.

I've purchased a new smartphone for my kid. I've found on internet there is something children tracking apps, like gps tracking, family locator app , that's one of the examples. There a lot of more of them. Does anyone have been using something like this.?

Hi There,
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A very simple app is Lookout it's an app that is endorsed by EE, it's more of an antivirus app, but there is an option to track the phones location from the website.
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