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I Made My Kids Wear AirTags in Europe

I Made My Kids Wear AirTags in Europe

I swear I'm not a helicopter parent, I tell myself, while I look at a blue dot on my phone.

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Patrick Klepek
Aug 19, 2025
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It’s important to my wife and I that we aren’t helicopter parents. Children deserve trust. The world is dangerous and bad things might happen, but you can navigate that without placing them inside of a bubble that’s misleading to you and them. The problem is that today’s technology allows parents to be invasive with good intentions.

All that said, while in Europe recently, I slapped an AirTag on both kids’ wrists. 

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