What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children… Helicopter Parents on Steroids.

“This is the same generation that talks all the time about Oh, it was so great in the ’80s; like, we could just ride our bikes all around the neighborhood, and, you know, we would come home when the sun goes down,” Stuart said. “But then these are the same parents that are on Life360, stalking their kids and watching their every move.”

“If we are being tracked or surveilled, and there is a ubiquitous sense that we can be rescued, are we not fully internalizing that sense of our own capacity?” he said. “And ultimately, there will come a time when we do need to stand on our own two feet.”