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All parents know the fears associated with protecting their children from bad people and questionable situations. Many teenagers know the frustrations resulting from overly protective parents. Parents want to make sure their child is safe. Teens want to try out their newly found wings and venture into adulthood. Thus, conflict results. No parent wants to stunt the growth of a child. However, good parents want to stay active in their children’s lives and protect them from unscrupulous activities that they are not mature enough to handle on their own just yet. Some people call that “helicopter parenting” because the parent never leaves the child alone to grow and learn. How can families walk the fine line between independence and safety? The answer lies with a high-tech device that is used more commonly than people think – GPS tracking.

Some parents and teens may find GPS teen tracking provides the solution. Many current GPS devices go beyond the more traditional uses as directional aids. For instance, two of the emerging types of GPS devices are personal tracking and vehicle tracking. Both of which can provide parents with peace of mind. Owners of these GPS devices can use them to keep an eye on their children’s actions and driving without invading their personal space or hindering their independence.

Most families don’t have children involved in feats such as Abby Sutherland’s attempt to circumnavigate the globe, (mentioned on a previous blog article) or Leigh Anne Drake’s thirteen-year-old son’s climb of Mt. Everest. In fact, most parents will question the judgment of a parent who allows their children to take such risks. However, just as teen tracking provided peace of mind for these parents, it can, through helping them stay aware of their child’s actions and location, provide a similar peace of mind for parents facing more everyday concerns.

For instance, teen tracking can help parents know where a young driver goes, what traffic laws they may break, and what speeds and locations the car experiences. Help your teen make good choices about friends and help them avoid dangerous situations. For example, although most parents probably never allow their thirteen-year-old to climb Mt. Everest, they may allow him or her to travel to a new, unfamiliar city. Tracking devices can ensure the teen stays safe or is found should a situation arise. It’s a good “Plan B” type of reassurance for the parents even though they have counseled their son or daughter on what to do in various situations.

Although many parents may feel these devices invade privacy, most will find that they actually provide the needed balance between parental control and teenage independence. By making sure that good habits are enforced, teens will have a better chance at survival alone, without Mom and Dad protecting them. In fact, most parents with children would do well to purchase a GPS teen tracking device.

(Article written by Greg Bartlett for Rocky Mountain Tracking, Inc.)

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By Greg Bartlett

GPS tracking for children provides parents with information on the location of the child at any time during the day. Working parents who are unable to be with their children during the day often rely heavily on the devices to keep them informed about their child’s whereabouts and safety. While costs can be high, the good news for parents is that prices are coming down enough to put GPS tracking devices within reach for most families.

Child Safety is #1

The benefits of GPS tracking for kids are numerous. Children go missing in America every day, and many times the kidnapper is someone known to the child. Moms or dads who have an estranged spouse can place a GPS tracking device in their child’s back pack or lunchbox to ensure that the child remains safe during after school hours and that he doesn’t end up at the other parent’s house. Parents whose children have a tendency to wander can also set up perimeters using a GPS device. If the child leaves the specified area, the parent will receive on alert via email or text message. Some models will also let parents know about a low battery to ensure that battery failure doesn’t occur in a critical situation.

Kidnapping statistics across the nation are frightening. Forty-nine percent of kidnappings are perpetrated by a relative of the child, and an additional twenty-seven percent of kidnappers are acquaintances of the child. That means that most kids wouldn’t know they were in danger until it was too late. With GPS tracking, parents can check up on their children at any time and see immediately whether they are where they are supposed to be. A GPS transmitter placed in a child’s backpack will send signals at specified intervals to the parent’s computer, allowing the parent to view location information in real time or as a report showing activity across time. Some devices will also give information regarding speed and direction of travel which can be helpful to police should intervention be necessary.

It’s difficult to imagine your child being the victim of an attempted kidnapping, but the news is filled with stories of children who go missing each day. By equipping their children with a GPS tracking device, parents can rest assured that they have done everything in their power to ensure each child’s safety. Parents can’t always be with their kids, but GPS tracking provides an extra pair of eyes to give parents peace of mind, even when their kids are out of sight.

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By Greg Bartlett

Recently, our local newspapers began heralding the disappearance of a young girl as she walked home from school. For a few days, everyone worried about her, but then she was found – dead. Unfortunately, her story is not unique. Children do sometimes disappear, especially when alone, such as walking home from school. But some parents don’t have a car or the time and ability to pick up their child after school just to drive a couple blocks to home. After all, the school is what, three blocks away? Surely it would be safe to let your fourteen-year-old walk that far on his or her own.

GPS & Children

Maybe, maybe not. Most likely nothing will happen, but as a parent you worry that one day something will happen. Your child has a cell phone, of course, but if he or she is kidnapped, the kidnapper may throw away the cell phone. But there are other options available, such as GPS tracking.

Personal GPS tracking devices are becoming more and more popular among parents, who can use the devices to monitor their child’s location and activities.

If your child walks to and from school each day, for instance, or even rides the bus to school but walks to your place of employment after school, you know that your child may be walking alone for part of the day. You can’t come and pick him or her up each day, but with a GPS tracking device, you can monitor your child from wherever you are and watch to see that he or she arrives safely.

If your child does happen to be kidnapped and you’re monitoring the child’s location and path, you’d notice the aberration right away. Even if you’re not actively watching the GPS device’s report, you can set it up so that if your child leaves the predetermined path or particular boundaries, you’d be instantly alerted. You could call police at once, the moment your child is kidnapped, and would be able to follow your child’s location so that the police could find your child before it’s too late.

When you were a child, you may have walked a couple miles safely to school or work, but in today’s world it just doesn’t seem safe to permit your child to do the same. However, with GPS tracking, you can help to ensure your child’s safety while still allowing him or her – and yourself – as much freedom as possible to go about your daily routine.

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By Greg Bartlett

The nation was riveted on October 15th as images of a flying saucer hovering over Colorado filled news channels everywhere. The oblong, silver monstrosity held no aliens, but as state police and even National Guard units scrambled to follow it, what they hoped to find inside was actually a small, 6-year-old boy. The story was even carried internationally by all major networks, and nearly everyone near a TV set or on a news site followed the drama.

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Thankfully, to everyone’s relief, the boy was merely hiding in his attic and discovered by an investigator staying with the family. The incident was actually just the latest in a long string of mishaps for a rather unique family, whose prior television appearances included a stint on Wife Swap, a semi-popular reality show with a habit of exposing familial issues.

As national attention was called to the incident, one cannot help but wonder how a simple GPS tracker could have alleviated the problem. Forget putting a GPS tracker on the balloon. After all, people could see the shiny object for miles. But if the rambunctious first grader had been given a GPS-enabled wristwatch or perhaps a regular GPS tracker to wear with the other gadgets on his belt, parents and investigators would have been relieved to see that the boy was indeed home the whole time, and the world would’ve been spared the opportunity of witnessing the first saucer attack since Roswell.

The incident ended well and will hopefully draw attention to the plight of lost children in the U.S. Hopefully parents—even eccentric ones with gigantic UFOs in their back yards—will make good use of earthling technology like GPS trackers to protect their kids. Gadgets don’t solve every problem, but a good dose of know-how combined with a strict sense of responsibility can keep the kids happy and safe at home.

Update: Turns out the entire incident was a hoax by the parents to garner publicity for their pursuits on reality television. We guess we’ve found something even GPS trackers can’t do: keep a parent from intentionally sucking their own kid into a cheap scam. And sure, all the technological savvy in the world won’t keep an innocent child from blurting out the scheme on Larry King Live.

Besides wasting the time of cops and guardsmen all over Colorado, the true crime by the parents was diminishing the plight of truly lost children. We hope that parents and officials everywhere still take these issues seriously.

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By Greg Bartlett

GPS technology has brought many benefits to the world of traveling and navigation. While most people are familiar with GPS navigation systems such as Garmin and Tom Tom and many are familiar with the term GPS tracking, many of those same people don’t understand the difference in the two concepts. Hearing the term GPS conjures images of the box that attaches to your windshield or dashboard and displays a map complete with voice directions indicating where you should turn to reach your destination. This application is one use of GPS, but GPS tracking systems may be even more beneficial to a broader range of people than their navigational cousins are.

GPS Points You in the Right Direction

GPS, or Global Positioning System, was developed by the military for use with ballistic missiles and works by measuring the distance from the GPS device to four or more of the GPS satellites orbiting the earth. By calculating the time it takes for the signal to reach the satellites, the device can determine precise location to within a few feet and sometimes within a few inches.

Unlike GPS navigation systems, GPS tracking devices do not provide maps or help you determine where you are going. They perform the more basic function of determining the location of an object, person or vehicle. By attaching a transmitter to the item, you can monitor its location remotely at any time. The uses of GPS tracking are many. Parents can use the technology to keep an eye on their kids while at work and adult children of elderly people can pinpoint the location and be assured of the safety of their parents at any time, an especially helpful ability for children of Alzheimer’s or dementia patients.

Business owners benefit from the technology by using GPS vehicle trackers to monitor fleet vehicles. They can determine whether employees are conducting personal business on company time, monitor fuel usage, and check routes to see if efficiency can be increased. Outdoor athletes find GPS watches useful as they allow family members to keep track of their loved one’s location whether he’s hiking in the mountains, biking in the desert, or jogging through the neighborhood. GPS tracking can also help you monitor possessions such as laptops, jewelry or automobiles and can give the police valuable information to aid in recovery of these items in case of theft.

No matter what your situation, there is a benefit to GPS tracking that will help give you peace of mind as you keep in sight the things that matter most to you.

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By Harriette Halepis

Kids love amusement parks. Clowns, toys, games, fun rides, and sticky treats all add up to a great day. While amusement parks are certainly a lot of fun, they can also be relatively dangerous. A large number of child molesters, kidnappers, and other types of criminals tend to lurk around park grounds.

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The best way to make sure that your kids stay safe is to keep a careful eye on them at all times. Of course, this might not be easy considering the fact that there are hundreds inside of most parks at any given time. What can you do to protect your kids?

There are a couple of things that make a lot of sense when it comes to making sure your kids are safe inside of a park. Here are a few suggestions that have been proven effective time and time again.

It’s also a good idea to speak with your children before you head to the park. Let them know what they should do in case of an emergency. Devise a game plan that includes a meeting spot somewhere in the park.

Amusement parks can be a lot of fun for your kids. In fact, they are great when it comes to summer vacation or a fun family outing. Just make sure that keep your eye on your children at all times. Use the tips provided above to make sure that your kids are safe.

When it comes to your children, you can never have too many safety precautions set in place. The more that you prepare for any kind of emergency, the less likely it is to occur.

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I remember my first day of school. I was excited and eager to head off to school, make new friends, and start learning. My parents took me to school and picked me up. But for some parents, the opportunity to drop off and pick up their children from school just isn’t feasible. Instead, their children ride the bus to school, leaving the parents with a new set of fears. They’re not just worried about how their child with fit in, find friends, and enjoy classes. Now they’re also worried about where their child is during the long bus ride.

After a five-year-old child was lost on a school bus for five hours, New York City implemented a plan to put GPS tracking units in its buses. Now parents will be able to find out where their children are while they are riding the bus, giving the parents peace of mind in knowing the location of their children, whether five years old or fifteen years old.

In Wales, another GPS tracking program requires students to swipe a card as they get on a bus. Then parents and officials can track the bus and know exactly who is riding the bus. The long bus rides are safer and the tracking options provide peace of mind for parents, students, school officials, and bus drivers.

A program in California aims for increased safety of its buses, bus drivers, and the students. The GPS system it uses allows the school to track the buses and have automatic updates every 60 seconds. In addition to increasing safety, the tracking system allows the school to streamline its routes for increased efficiency.

With GPS tracking, parents and school officials can know where a bus is and whether or not it will be late. If the bus is hijacked, has an accident, makes an unplanned stop, or deviates from its path, authorities can be alerted almost immediately. Furthermore, if the bus breaks down or is hijacked, the driver can send a silent alert or text message to the police and to the school, and the GPS will let them know where the bus is so that assistance can be sent to the right location.

Parents no longer have to be worried about the safety of their children who ride the bus to school. Instead, they can relax in knowing where the bus – and thus where their child – is. And with GPS tracking, security on school buses ensures that each child is safe and can be easily located.

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Parents around the world are finding that there is a steady increase in crime against children. Kidnappings that lead to rape and murder are on the increase in several countries, including the US, UK, and Greece. Parents can help protect their children by giving them a specially built GPS tracker.

Child Safety is #1

Common features of a GPS tracker include the ability of parents to look at a feed from a website and see where their children are located at any given time. It is possible to set the signals from the GPS tracker to signal an alarm in the event of a child being outside an area defined by the parents so that parents know to notify the authorities.

In the event of a child abduction from a store or other location where the parent is with the child, but looks away for a moment, parents can initiate locating the child quickly. Often, the child is simply lost inside the store. In worse cases, it may be possible to locate the child and have security personnel recover the child before an abductor can get them out of the area. Worst case, parents can notify police of the abduction and have a response in the works before the abductor has time to harm the child.

Once upon a time, it was only the children of the rich that had to worry about being abducted. Today, it is the nightmare of every parent that some pervert will abduct a child and molest him/her then kill him/her to keep from being caught. Giving a child a GPS system can provide parents with some peace of mind with the knowledge that they are protecting their children even when they are out of sight.

Our society is going through some major changes, several of them for the worst. Increases in the instance of child abduction around the world have led to the development and implementation of ways for parents to give their child a GPS tracker that can be monitored so that parents can know where their children are at any given time.

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Today’s society is highly mobile. Many families have two or more vehicles either in the garage or driveway. The asset of having a vehicle available, combined with the interstate highway system allows a person to be hundreds of miles away from their home in a relatively short period of time. Once a person has left home, how can family members ensure that they know the location of that person with any degree of certainty? Locating people with GPS tracking ensures that the person’s location is always available.

The reasons for wanting to know a person’s location vary from family to family. A spouse may suspect their partner of infidelity or doing something that they shouldn’t; a teenage driver may not stay within their defined limits for driving. An elderly parent may wander away from home and not remember how to return to the home’s safe confines. A child may also wander away or be taken by an adult. In all of these cases there is a GPS tracking solution to locate these people.

If a spouse or partner is suspected of infidelity or doing something that they shouldn’t, buying drugs for example, a GPS tracking device can be covertly installed in their vehicle. This will allow the suspicious spouse to track where their partner is going, and potentially what they are doing. Once the wandering spouse establishes a pattern, the suspicious spouse can intercept them at their destination.

Teenage drivers are often persuaded by peer pressure to exceed the limits that were agreed to with their parents. These limits can be excessive speed, dangerous driving habits or violation of specific geographic limits. GPS systems can be programmed by the parent to inform them when these violations occur. This information can be transmitted as a text message or an e-mail to the parent in real time. The parent may have the option to remotely disable the vehicle when these violations occur.

Children and elderly adults can be provided with small personal GPS transmitters that provide their location whenever they are away from the house. There are systems available that have portable hand held receivers, which can be utilized, to track down their location on foot. If a child wanders away in a park, the adult can easily locate the child utilizing the hand held receiver. Often, the child is simply watching ducks on the pond, playing with other children or on a playground apparatus in a different part of the park. The ability to know where the child is provides the parent an assurance that they can always find the child.

Locating people with GPS car tracking technology has never been easier. This ability provides the assurance that loved ones can always be located. Locating people with GPS tracking can keep those being tracked both out of trouble and safe from harm. To get answers about your tracking needs, call Rocky Mountain Tracking, Inc toll-free at 1-888-242-0500.

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By Harriette Halepis

Many years ago, the term “latchkey kid” was coined. This term referred to children that carried keys to their homes on them at all times. These children often went home to empty houses, which is why they had to carry a set of keys with them. Today, latchkey kids still exist, only they are starting to carry another item with them as well: a GPS tracker. Parents have begun to realize that a short phone call to mom or dad after school doesn’t mean that their children will stay inside of a house until an adult arrives.

In fact, many parents are shocked to discover that their children get into all kinds of trouble when they are alone. In most cases, parents only arrive at their home two to three hours after a child has already been dropped off by the school bus. During this time, a child can find all kinds of things to do. Sometimes, these things involve leaving a home to explore a neighbourhood, visit a friend, or venture out into a large city. Sadly, many of these children never do return to their homes. Some children wind up abducted, others wind up lots, and a few simply run away.

Your child might never wander too far away from your home. However, they will probably leave the house only to return just before you come home from work. This might not be an issue with some parents, but other parents might want to know where their children are going while they are left alone. For example, some teenagers will sneak off to a boyfriend or girlfriend’s house. Thanks to GPS technology, these teens can now be tracked. It is easy to attached a non-detectable GPS tracking device to an article of clothing, backpack, or other item. This way, you can see where your child is at all times…even if you are at work when your child is supposed to be at home.

A new generation of kids is on the horizon: the “tracker kid.” These kids not only carry keys to their homes, but they also carry GPS trackers that allow parents to keep watchful eyes on them. If you are concerned about your child’s safety, don’t let them stay home alone without any supervision. Instead, make sure that they are monitored at all times. Not only will a GPS tracker give you peace of mind, it will also keep your child safe from any kind of outside harm.

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