{"id":486073,"date":"2026-05-15T13:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/486073\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:41:11","slug":"what-happens-if-i-take-my-eye-off-them-why-parents-airtag-their-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/486073\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;What happens if I take my eye off them?&#8217;: Why parents airtag their kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do you ever worry about your child getting lost in the middle of an unfamiliar city and you won\u2019t be able to find them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stretchmarks podcast host Sinead O\u2019Moore said she and her young family were \u201creally looking forward\u201d to a trip to Rome together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, with two children of five and eight, Ms O\u2019Moore said she began to worry about what might happen if they got separated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been away on loads of trips with my children,\u201d she explained on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstalk.com\/shows\/lunchtime-live-234859\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lunchtime Live<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI give them plenty of freedom in the playgrounds and swimming pools and the beaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this was a moment of us in a city; we are going to be surrounded by thousands of other tourists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd what happens if I take my eye off them for a second?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After she had a nightmare that her five year old had been kidnapped by a tour group, she decided to buy air tags, which allows her to track their movements on her phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was like one of those moments where you&#8217;re like, I can&#8217;t have that happen,\u201d Ms O\u2019Moore said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can&#8217;t have that happen; so, we got the air tags.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms O\u2019Moore bought the tags on Amazon and usually pins them to their backpacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can have little key chains,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks really cute &#8211; like a little cute keyring of a rabbit or something.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just means that if for any reason we got separated as a family, immediately I could go into the find my app on my phone and I could see where they were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main image: An Apple AirTag. Image: Wachiwit\/Alamy<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do you ever worry about your child getting lost in the middle of an unfamiliar city and you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[18,282,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-486073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-gadgets","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116578883621991203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}