Beijing has started distributing mobile phone equipped with GPS tracking devices at the beginning of the year so as to curb the problem of campus violence and missing children.

There are so much things to worry about ever since we moved to China two years ago. Water and food safety, air pollution, crazy traffic junctions, unsafe vaccination …. and there is this thing that constantly nagging in our head, what happens if we lost our kids in a busy street or shopping mall?

When I briefly lost Didi for 2min in a shopping mall in Shanghai 2 years ago, it felt like thunder and windchill struck me all at once. This country is huge and children are precious. If the kid got abducted and the baddie contact us for a ransom, that would actually be lucky. Most of the lost kids will not be found. There are also instances where the abductor got frightened, got desperate then killed and disposed the kid.

Couldn’t help feeling frighten, so we bought Zeeyau a mobile phone with a GPS tracking device last year (not the one distributed by Beijing Red Cross Foundation). Its a cool gadget, smaller then the size of our palm, weighing only 58g, and we could track her location from an online platform which will register her locations every now and then. We could also define a certain safe movement radius, if she moves out of the radius, an SMS will be automatically sent to warn the parents.

While I admit I have been over paranoid, its good to have such a gadget just in case the kid got lost somewhere so we can call her and find her as quickly as we can.