As a parent there is precious little to nothing that you would not do to keep your children safe from harm or accident. It’s your responsibility to keep them fed, bathed, clothed, and sheltered. When they leave your sight to venture through the doors of your home out into the world village, you pray for them and hope that their guardian angels are watching.

When you take your toddler out with you to go grocery shopping, in a moment you turn to locate her and she is gone! Your heart skips several beats, you get breathless, and your blood pressure shoots up. Seconds later you see her down another aisle playing with an item snatched from one of the store shelves. When your brood is a bit older and pass from your line of sight to go out and play, you hope they remember to look both ways before crossing the street.
When your children reach their teens they then are faced with other potential pitfalls. Pressures from their peers may weigh heavily upon them, and you hope the lessons taught in the home are not lost on them once they are offered substances that would be dangerous to their bodies, minds, and spirits. Being with the “in” crowd seems to be important to them for their social survival, and weekend parties may comprise a crowd that you’d rather your youth didn’t associate with. Ventures into immoral traps may be their initiation into a clan that leads them down darkening paths.

Upon reaching adulthood you have much less influence on your now-grown children. Habits are created and patterns are in place. There are forces both seen and unseen that act on our children as they advance through the stages of life and pass by the significant mileposts. Sometimes don’t you want to just somehow be invisible and watch what they do in a certain scenarios, and to ensure if they have developed the integrity to be their own person as opposed to blending in and just being part of the crowd?

Fortunately we can to a large extent check in and stay in touch with our children thanks to technologies that are so convenient and relatively inexpensive. A brief call or a text or instant message brings them a lot closer to us without them feeling they are on a leash. And in the event our children are illegitimately taken from us by kidnapping, there is also a survival approach that can track them and help the police in their recovery much like On Star detects and tracks an accident with an automobile.

Coming full circle– now back to the beginning: we feed, bathe, clothe, and shelter our children. As parents we wish to bestow upon them every good gift. How far would we go for their protection and defense? Let us take every opportunity afforded us to provide for their well being and keep them safe from harm. The ability to track them should they be taken from us is something that every parent who has had an Amber Alert sent out for their child would wish they had. Take advantage of this miraculous emergency preparedness technology, and prevent the unfathomable heartache of an abducted child.