In a world that is filled with endless distractions and potential dangers, parents really have a hard time bringing up their children in today’s society. Losing a child even for a short period is enough to traumatise a parent for life. This is the reason why GPS tracking watches have become very popular for monitoring the location of children at all times. Here are practical ways that these devices help you look after your children.

Losing children in crowded areas

This is one of the most common instanceswhen parents say they have lost their child. You go to the fair or the shopping centre, and within a few seconds, the child is lost in the crowd. You run around frantically calling for the child. You have a lot of fears running through your mind over what could have happened to your child. You are in a state of suspended animation and do not feel good until you have found your child. With a GPS tracking watch, this terror will not happen at al. As soon as a child gets lost, open the WatchOvers app, and within a few minutes you will have located the child if you are outdoors or simply call the watch and talk to your child.

Teenagers also need some monitoring

Although teenagers are usually fighting for their autonomy, it is prudent that you get them to wear GPS tracking watches so you know where they are. Teenagers are more likely to get into dangerous situations because they are adventurous and also feel like they are grown up enough to deal with any problem. With the GPS tracking watch, you can easily see where your teenager is. The issue is not to spy on the teenager, but to know that he or she can tend to take more risks than a younger child, and hence the need for monitoring.

Developmental and behavioral challenges need tracking

If you have a child with ADHD or autism, then you know that your child can sometimes wander off unintentionally.GPS tracking watches help you parent your child by allowing them to live a more normal life without being supervised at all times. A child with ADHD can forget where he or she is going or where he or she is. With the tracking device, you can find them within a few minutes.

Keep children safe from bad people

One never thinks it can happen to them, until it actually does – child abduction is a very traumatising experience. As a parent, you must protect your child from such events. Give the GPS tracking watch and your child will be safe at all times.

Give your child autonomy

You cannot be there for your child at all times, and you cannot ground the child if you are not around. Let the child wear a GPS tracking watch and go wherever he or she wants, within limits. This will develop a sense of independence which is healthy for him or her. You as the parent will also have a little more peace.

The safety of a child is one of the main responsibilities of a parent. It is not possible to monitor your child at all times, and this is the reason why parents have turned to GPS tracking watches and other devices. GPS tracking watches have become the most popular because they are normal items; they act as mobile phones, and provide the required monitoring of the child. These GPS watches use certain apps in order to provide tracking information to a parent or caregiver. WatchOvers is one of the leading applications within the industry, and this article looks at some of the features that make it one of the best.

GPS location

This is one of the main features of this application. The location allows you to see were the child is at any time. With the location feature, you can set a geofence within which a child should remain. If the child goes outside the zone, then you get an alert and you can then find your child, or call and let the child know that he or she is wandering outside the safe zone.

SOS Button

If a child s in danger, then a simple push of a button will send an alert to the registered numbers, and also make a call. This simplicity of operation is why the app is so popular. There are no complicated ways of getting help.

Two way calling

The fact that the watch can act as a mobile phone also reassures both the child and the parent. If in a strange situation, the child can call the parents and ask for help. The parent will locate the child on a map and then deal with the situation. With two-way calling, the parent can keep talking to the child to give him or her reassurance while you are getting to pick them up.

SIM card roaming

The application allows for the registration of the strongest network in any area. This means that the child can be located, even if the original network of the SIM card cannot be accessed. An alternative network will be used.  The sim card will roam between mobile networks to use the network that has mobile signal in the area the watch is located.

Data Encryption

In today’s world, hackers have been known to engage in some devious activities. They can be hired to find information about the location of a high-value target’s child. This means the child could be abducted to leverage the parent to do something against his will. With WatchOvers, nobody can get to the data, since it is protected by 128-bit encryption.

Basically, WatchOvers is one of the leading GPS tracking watch applications on the market. There are many other features, but these are the most important. You can rest assured that your child is safe when you use the WatchOvers app on your GPS tracking watches.

When you consider the debate that has been going on about the ethics of monitoring children with GPS tracking devices, it would be good to know what the law says about this. In the beginning even schools used to refuse children from coming to school wearing GPS tracking devices. Parents insisted until the school acquiesced. However, was this right under the law?

Children, just like adults, have a right to maintain their privacy. However, due to their minority status, this right to privacy is limited to a certain point. There is no legislation that is directly concerned with GPS tracking of children. Although there is no law targeted at this practice, you will find that society has come up with some sort of “AcceptedBehavior Rules” withregards to GPS tracking of children.

A parent has to weigh the ethics of tracking thechild against the dangers that the child may face, and how the tracking device could help save the child. Most people opt to go for an open relationship with the child in order to determine whether the tracking GPS device is acceptable. The child may just say that he or she can use a cell phone and the parent can call at any time to know that the child is safe. The child may also see the concern of the parent and accept to be monitored with a GPS watch. Most children are happy to wear a GPS watch as they feel more secure.

Parental rights also allow the parent to be in full control over the movement of the child. A parent is within his or her rights, if he says that the child should not go to a particular area. Using a GPS tracking watch to ensure that the child does not venture to the restricted area is therefore legal.

On the side of the child, society understands that the child is obligated to listen to the parent, especially when the safety of the child is the issue. This means that the child may have to wear the GPS tracking watch, whether he or she wants to or not. As long as the mother or father has said the watch must be worn, the child is obligated to do so.

The law says that the privacy rights of the child are not equal to those of an adult. Thereasons being that a child cannot make critical decision, the child is vulnerable to the adult and the adult has a right to parent the child.

The legality of tracking children using GPS devices is a grey area. There is no law for or against it. There are expectations that are enforced in the existing laws. There are also societal expectations about the privacy of a child. Perhaps soon, there will be legislature directly addressing this issue, but for now, there is none that says tracking your child is illegal. You have the right to keep your child safe at all times, and you have the right to have peace of mind. If you need to have the child wear a GPS tracking watch, there is no law against it.

As with any laws, they are different from country to country as we have seen from Germany banning any devices that can listen in without the people around the device knowing they are listening.  We expect we will see more changes in this area.