Parents Tracking Teens GPS-style Using Cell Phones

Read this first, then come back. [Article: Big Mother (or father) is Watching]

Are you back? Let me ask you, is this the age in which we live today? Have we given up on training our children in the way they should go: and when they are old they will not depart from it? (Proverbs 22:6) Is there so little trust within the family fabric that parents have to resort to "spying" on their kids? How's this for GPS? God's Perpetual Spirit with them at all times.

This story really annoyed me as a technology professional. I am passionately for technology making our lives richer, safer, less mundane and more connected, but this use of gadgetry simply replaces our vital parental responsibility. And about that last statement, "As much as (my son) protests and hates it, we're the only parents who know what's going on." Don't we communicate anymore? Sure it's a pain to get our boys to open up about their day and what they're feeling, but you never, ever give up.

Rant over. Have a nice day.