Want to track your kid?

A. Summary

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New iPhone-applications such as “teen tracker” and “MamaBear” appear to be quite useful for parents. These applications are capable of tracking the adolescent’s locations on a map and therefore make the parents know where their kids are at every moment. Additionally they activate the phone’s camera, for recording audio and video, respectively. Dr. Keith Ablow, who is a psychiatrist, has a relatively negative perspective on these apps, as they can cause implications. He says among other things that it is a license for teenagers to not to be responsible for what they do, and for their parents so they can see what their kids are doing, and not be concerned about their behavior. According to Dr. Keith Ablow, we have to get back to a place where people actually communicate and where you are capable of looking your teenager in the eye and know whether we are dealing with a responsible individual or not. He, however, states that under certain circumstances it may be okay for parents to use these apps.

B. Discussion

“...it is essentially ceding*, turning over to technology your parental responsibilities and your responsibilities as a developing adult.” (1:28 – 1:37)

The technology and the development has improved to a great extent, but instead of using it the right way, we, as individualists, have chosen to do it in the wrong way. However, the big and not least controversial question is why should parents have a track for their kids? Well the answer is obvious. Parents want to see what their adolescents are doing and whom they are talking with.

In the first place, I personally think that parents should raise up their children proper...

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... and are very indifferent about what child’s mates think, as far as their safety is on the agenda.

As the parents still think, their little child is still a little child also when he/she is 180 cm high. It is time for both parties to understand, that we are living in an era of communication, and many difficulties and problems can be talked and solved by discussion.

Therefore, it is vital, that we give the time for talk without being insulted or insult, as we are all going through a process of growth also for our parents.

Here I can give my personal view to the whole question, as far as my parents and I are concerned.

If my parents decided to get a tracker and watched me what I was doing, I would not care about it at all. My parents has brought me up in a good way. My personal demeanors are neutral, and I do not have a concrete position about tracking their kids.