The best mobile apps for the safety of your children

Soulless Statistics tells us that every year lost about 15 000 children in Russia. That is, every half an hour lost one child. 10% of them disappear. To some it may seem that this problem affects someone else, but not them, because the heroes of police reports often become lumpen elements which hang down, bums and drunks. Most likely it is not, because these children often do not seek out and in any statistics they are not displayed.

One of the best ways to protect their children from such accidents - is to use the capabilities of modern mobile phones to monitor their whereabouts. Today mobile applications for smartphones are becoming more readily available and most of them have the GPS modules. In this article we will talk about a few free applications to ensure the safety of your children.

This application is able to track the location of your family members in real time as well as battery level in their smartphones. You can set the safe zone at the exit of the child who will receive the notification. You can be configured to receive messages when you reach a certain point the person that will come in handy in the event that a child yourself going to the gym or to relatives.

Sygic Family also has built-in messaging between members of the family system, which allows you to send messages for free over the Internet. There is also a special SOS button, which allows one click to send the exact location. You never know when a sudden you may need.

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Life360 pretty much has the same features as the previous application. So, there is monitoring of the current situation of family members with the help of GPS, panic button, alerting on entering or leaving the target zone. It also allows you to quickly find out about the nearest place where you can get help in an emergency (hospitals, police stations).

The Life360 is also integrated FamilyChannel free group chat that successfully replaces the text messaging service. According to the developers is the only search application that works with regular phones that allows you to track the location of even those of your family members who do not have smartphones. However, this feature works not in all countries.

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Another great application for the safety of your children. Of course, there are all the features you need to monitor your child's location. But additionally MamaBear able to monitor his behavior on the Internet. The app will notify you when he has new friends on Facebook and use profanity and rudeness in the messages, which can be a sign of intimidation and bullying in relation to your children. You will also learn about all Chekina and marks in the photos involving children.

application interesting feature is the instant notification that a child moves too fast speed, that can testify about the movement of the vehicle.

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Google Latitude is a great location monitoring tool. It allows you to see where your family members are on the map, and easily keep in touch with them. To start using it, you need to log in to Google Latitude and start adding your family through your Gmail contacts. When they accept your offer, you can see their location on a Google Map on your phone.

Their position will be monitored in the background even if the app is closed or when your phone is locked. In addition, with Latitude, you'll not only see the people added to the map, but also be able to keep in touch with them via SMS, Google Talk, Gmail, or simply updating their status in the program.

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This application provides the most rigid control of the considered in this review. In addition to the mandatory programs for this category of location monitoring, you can very tightly control the use of your mobile phone child. Receive alerts when your children are using their mobile phones in the middle of the night, when they add a new contact or when they have downloaded and installed a new application.

Parents can also get detailed statistics about the use of your smartphone, and set limits on the time, number of messages, the volume of data transferred and so on. there is an emergency call button in case of danger and messaging between family members.

At the end of this review I would like to address the question that is sure to occur to many readers. It is ethical to use these applications, and whether parental custody will become a total surveillance and supervision?

A definite answer to these questions is unlikely to exist. There are different situations, different kids and parents. One such tools are essential, others may well do by conventional means. In any case, the use of such applications should be carried out by mutual agreement and after a lengthy conversation with all members of the family. What do you think about this?