Mom Reveals Why Her 3-Year-Old Daughter Wears an Apple AirTag: ‘Helps Me Feel More in Control’

Keeping track of toddlers can be difficult, but mom Brooke King has found a new solution.

King, who is mom to three-year-old daughter Kella, turned to Apple’s AirTag devices to keep an eye on her child. Because her daughter is too young for a cell phone, King said Good morning America that AirTags make it easier for her to know where her daughter is at all times.

“I always run fast after her … I didn’t want to teach her that if she ran away, I was just going to run after her, and it was okay to continue that behavior,” King said.

In the huddle, King gives her daughter an AirTag to wear as a bracelet, so if they get separated, she would have an easy way to track her daughter from her cell phone by logging into Apple’s FindMy app and seeing her real-time location.

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“It helps me feel more in control of the situation,” King added. “As a parent, my top priority is her safety along with her ability to have some independence.”

While Apple said Good morning America Although AirTags aren’t designed to track children, parenting expert Ericka Souter noted that the device can be a good way to give younger children some independence.

“If you have little ones who may be walking to school on their own for the first time or going to extracurricular activities and you just want to make sure they are safe, [it might be a good idea]” she said. “Parents have a lot of safety concerns these days.”

But for older kids, Souter found AirTags might not be the best option.

“If you have a teenager who has to go back and forth to school, or hang out with his friends or have a curfew, eventually you have to start trusting him to follow the rules and come home when he needs to come home,” she said.

“So for a lot of families, the teenage years are kind of cut off for something like an AirTag that monitors where they are.”

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