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I support parents keeping an eye on their kids. I don't support parents putting an electronic tracking device on their kids and getting them conditioned to an outside entity monitoring their every move. What's so hard to understand about that? Value freedom, and take the consequences for your actions. Where do we disagree? We have to teach kids to have freedom and use it responsibly.

I was an only child with protective parents. I leaned boundries. I want other kids to have the same opportunity.

I believe you're exaggerating this in several areas into something that it is not. You state: "I don't support parents putting an electronic tracking device on their kids and getting them conditioned to an outside entity monitoring their every move." This is not what the article says happened. This is a device in the parents' vehicle. It is not a device implanted or placed on their child. Second this was not conditioning their child. The child never knew the device was in the vehicle. Since she did not know she was being monitored by a device, she clearly was NOT being conditioned to be used to an 'outside entity' monitoring her. Third, parents are not outside entities to their own children. Further, no 'outside entities' were involved in collecting or looking at the data - only the child's own parents could look at the data on their own computers. Only the parents decided to place the device on their own vehicle - no 'outside entity' or big govt drone required them to do so. Fourth, the device most clearly did not monitor the child's every move. It monitored the child when she was driving the parents' vehicle. The device monitored where the child drove the vehicle, and in what manner the child drove the vehicle. And then, it monitored only a few pieces of data. Not what she said, who she was with, what she drank or smoked or ate. Nothing else was recorded. I am not in favor of implanting chips or putting tracking devices on kids 24/7 (or anyone else, for that matter). But what these parents did is a far cry from that. And I would appreciate it after I have pointed out your exaggerations above to admit that. You are projecting your own perceptions of what you feel they did, not what the article's facts are. And, I think you are also forgetting a part of the story that nobody seemed to point out: ' While her friends make fun of her for having one, Paige NOW ADMITS (emphasis mine) liking the CarChip. "It helps me watch my speed and keeps me honest," she said. ' So you see, this device can help a child be more honest and drive more responsibly and she doesn't seem to hate her parents. Perhaps she'll get to a point where her folks will take it out because she's learned to be more responsible.