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ITB2012's picture

Submitted by ITB2012 on Tue, 08/25/2020 - 8:22pm

DH gets a call from BM. YSS is on his way over and could DH please talk to him to find out what's up and see if he can determine why YSS was stopped at a certain place on his way here. DH didn't know YSS was on his way here tonight (thought he was coming tomorrow and, as a side note, hadn't told me any thing about YSS coming at all). 

While on the call with BM, YSS calls DH. DH takes that call and during the call says that BM says you're at certain place, what are you doing there? I was sitting right next to DH and said out loud before I could stop myself--but also quietly: ooh, bad move, shouldn't have said that. DH hangs up with YSS and maybe 10 seconds later gets an angry call from BM saying that he shouldn't have said that, that YSS just called her and accused her of tracking him. (duh)

I held my breath and waited for him to hang up before I laughed. DH really doesn't know how to play the parenting game. When she told him to find out, he was supposed to be sneaky, duh. And now YSS is pissed at both of them. Also, duh.

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tog redux's picture

Submitted by tog redux on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 5:28am

Why would DH even consider doing that for BM? Why couldn't she ask YSS that herself? And OMG, she's tracking him?

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Submitted by Thisisnotus on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 7:48am

We all track here but it means that the adults are also tracked.

we all have the life 360 app.

I think all the kids like knowing where we are more then we like to know where they are.

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Submitted by tog redux on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 7:58am

Seems like overkill to me, personally, especially since her YSS clearly does not want to be tracked.  Hopefully now he will turn off his location services.

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Submitted by Mominit on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 9:20am

We track their phones, they can see ours.  House rules.  If you're not doing anything sneaky, it won't bother you was our line of thought.  Our other line of thought was I pay for it, I set it up.  You don't want to be tracked, say goodbye to the phone (leave it at home).  It's no worse than asking your kids to tell you where they're going before they leave, and expecting them to tell the truth.  They didn't mind as kids.  As teenagers it stopped me from worrying about them or checking up on them (did you remember that you're picking your sibling up from school today....didn't have to ask or remind, I could just see that they were on the way).  Several times one of them called lost and I could just see where they were and direct them back to the highway.  They're pretty much all grown now, and pay for their own phones.  So no rules from me.  They still share locations with us so we can see each other (voluntarily).  But I'm sure as kids they may have hated not being able to be sneaky!

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Submitted by Winterglow on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 10:16am

Same here lol

We still operate on the "tell us where you're going" principle Smile It never occurred to me to use a tracker ... and I'm not going to start now.

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Submitted by ITB2012 on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 10:05am

Add a tracker and I could see he was home when I woke up in the middle of the night wondering and me coming and waking him up by checking his room, or come wake me up when he got home to let me know. He chose tracker. 

When he turned 18 it went off. 
 

And I don't know why YSS is surprised. He's on his moms account and Apple account so all she needs is Find My Phone. 

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Submitted by tog redux on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 10:15am

Did he stop at a brothel or a liquor store?or does she have nothing better to do than watch her son's every move?

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Submitted by ITB2012 on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 10:07am

Tag-teamed DS all the time. He couldn't get away from any issue by going to the other parents house.