Five Important Tips for Buying a GPS Child Locator

This button allows your child a bit more independence. If someone has stopped him/her to talk, or for any reason, and the child is uncomfortable, he/she need only press the SOS button and you are alerted. With the location right on your cell phone.

The right unit will have the ability for you to listen to whatever is happening around your child. See a stranger talking to her, turn on the voice and check the conversation. Neither your child nor the person talking to her will know you are listening.

Think for a moment of the many situations where this feature could be important. You don't want a GPS Child Locator without it.

Everywhere our children go there is potential for them to get lost or stolen.

We watch so closely, yet they can spot some shinny thing and have run from us in the blink of an eye.

But, you want to allow you 8 yr old some degree of independence. Get the locator that allows you to set up a safe zone, i.e. the length of your cul-de-sac. When the child strays out of that zone, you can see right where she is on your cell phone which has just sent you an alert.

The Amber Alert will also tell you if she is in a car, by giving you the speed and direction of travel.

You already know you want the unit to be small. You will be tucking it into a pocket, perhaps a sock, maybe a diaper.

Some parents like the idea of wearing it as a watch. Others feel the "bad guys" will recognize that and quickly dispose of it. This must be entirely your choice.

Have you thought about waterproof? The unit in the sock has to survive every puddle met on the way home from school! Waterproof is probably good in the diaper, too!

And how about tamperproof. Please, don't get one that curious little fingers can take apart.

You already have the habit of taking your cell phone with you all the time. Tie your GPS into that cell phone.

Don't try to create a new habit of having to keep the receiver with you as well as your phone. The phone is enough, and the habit is already secure. Think how awful you'd feel if you left it home.

You can tie the Amber Alert into your computer as well. But, the cell phone is most important.