Jun18
GTX- Mother’s Friend, Teenger’s Worst Nightmare
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Here’s a shocking confession for you- I was not a model teenager. I was a bit bad actually. Gasp, sputter, shock!
(Ok, maybe not so shocking.)
While I didn’t do any drugs or steal cars or anything, I was not adverse to a midnight foray into places I had no business being, particularly when I was supposed to have been sleeping in my grandmother’s guest room when I went for visits. I did sleep mind you, but generally not until I’d climbed back into the window around 4 or 5am, exhausted and ready to catch 3 hours of sleep, usually ending in a headache and a great story to tell my friends come Monday.
As a teenager it was cool as heck. As a mother of an about-to-be-10-year-old daughter I cringe at the things I did back then. 3 or 4 years down the line this could be MY child doing these things! While my gut reaction is to lock her in a closet in a chastity belt, I know eventually I will have to let her out once in awhile.
When that day comes, I’m pretty sure I will be investing in GPS tracking devices to keep an eye on her whereabouts. With devices now so small they can be built into a tennis shoe or clipped onto a backpack, there will be no reason not to be able to log online and check to be sure she’s where she says she’ll be. Not only will I be able to see where she is, I could also check where she has been previously, quite neatly disposing of the “Mom, I DID run to the store!”, where the side trips to the boyfriend’s house have been omitted. Umm, not that I ever did that. Ahem.
With any luck and a lot of help from modern technology, it may be possible to help keep my kids out of the kind of trouble I got into at that age. Ok, probably not, but a mom can dream, right?
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feener Jun 18th 2008 at 03:30 pm 1
i really see no problem with installing chips (like the ones they put in dogs and cats) right into an infant the day they are born. that would solve missing kids ?? forget amber alert - it is lojack for kids and i think there is nothing wrong with it.