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Encore episode 128. Should I track my teen's location?

It's easy to track kids' location using cell phone technology, but is it a good idea?

Today's technology allows us to know a lot more about our kids

than our parents ever knew about us. And while parents might track their teens for supervision

and safety reasons, teens often long for more independence, for more privacy than tracking allows.

Dr. Lisa explains why this tension is an expectable, healthy part of adolescent development,

and she unpacks two key questions in this episode. What exactly does tracking really try to

accomplish? And does it help keep our teens safe? I ask about the downsides of tracking a

teen's location, and Dr. Lisa also lays out the tricky scenarios that she's encountered in her practice

with tracking kids using cell phone technology. We hope you enjoy this encore episode. Should I track

my teen's location? So since I haven't gotten my kids a cell phone, there's this whole world

once you've given your kid a cell phone that I'm unaware of. But I didn't know that sometimes

parents track their kids' location via cell phone. I'm unaware of, but I didn't know that sometimes parents track their

kids' location via cell phone. They turn it on and can know exactly where they really are.

Is that a big thing? They do. It's a huge thing. And it's a hugely controversial thing,

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