Our world has changed so much since we were children. Just a few short decades ago, when we were kids, we went outside to play and when we got there all of our friends were there too.
In this new world we live in today our children are not safe. We can’t just let them out the front door and let them run the neighborhood all day. We can’t even let them get out of our sight for a second for fear that some pervert is going to abduct them. 800,000 children are reported missing every year and we don’t want our children to be part of that statistic.
Our answer for that has been to keep them close at all times. The problem is that while we are keeping them safer by doing that we are creating a generation of children that not only don’t get enough exercise because they aren’t allowed to play outside but we are also making them afraid of the outside world. This may be doing them more harm than good in the long run.
There are products on the market, such as BrickHouse Security Child Locators and Wherify GPS Child Locators that will allow you to keep tabs on your child without having to be right there with them at all times. These products are good but have one draw back that I can see. If your child is anything like mine they have a tendency to take things off and then lose them. If they do that you are likely to find the GPS device and not the child it is supposed to be attached to.
GPS locators are a great idea for child safety but they might need to be taken a step further. We currently implant chips in our animals so that if they get lost they can be located. We apparently feel that locating our lost pets is important to us so why can’t we implant a chip in children when they are born.
It may sound insane but the world around us has gone insane. We have to find a way of keeping our children safe from predators and this seems like as good an idea as any. If we can put the chip in their heel when they are born we would be able to locate them via the internet and GPS at any moment. This could even be something that is paid for at the time of their birth and includes having it removed at 18 when they become an adult.
All of this may seem extreme but we hear every day about how another child has wandered off and is missing or that another predator has taken a child right out from under their parent’s noses. Something has to be done. If it takes extreme measures to insure our children’s safety then maybe that is what we have to do.
