Author—Mary Beth Lowell – Communications Manager

Purple_bigAs a new parent who is getting very little sleep at night, I’ve noticed I now have very strange dreams in the short increments that I do get.

Last night I had a dream that I lost my dog in a mall. (I have no idea where that came from but on a scale of 1 to 10, that was a 1 compared to other recent dreams.)

Coincidentally enough though, Garmin today introduced its new dog collar with GPS.

I was reading about it on Gizmodo and saw that someone had commented that it should be used on kids. I’m sure they were joking but it did make me think about other technology that allows you to track your kids (new parent brain).

There are several different options such as giving your kids a phone with GPS or maybe a bracelet. Wherify has an interesting product – a watch that has GPS on it. I know kids love fun watches so I’m thinking this might be a great option for both boys and girls. It currently comes in blue or purple but my guess is if they had pink, they’d sell more for girls.

What do you think? Do you track your kids? Anyone who thinks this is a bad idea?