I got email from Disney Mobile this morning. It looks like Mickey is in the phone business now and among other things, promises to give me the ability to track my kids’ phones via GPS. Move over Big Brother! Now admittedly, being able to track my kids may have some practical benefit, but despite my love of most technology, I’ll take a pass on GPS tracking. Parents today have a lot of tech tools to monitor/control their kids, but the real job of parenting is not going to be accomplished via V-chips, internet filters, and GPS tracking. I want my kids to develop discipline, self control. That means that I have to give up some control and allow them the room to make mistakes. And since this has worked fairly well for the thousands of years of human history prior to GPS satellites, it probably has a pretty good chance of working now, as long as I put the work into it. So sorry Mickey, I’ll just do it the old fashioned way.
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