While parents have used location-tracking apps to keep an eye on their kids since the tech was invented, millennials and Gen Zers are now turning the all-seeing eye onto their parents.
The kids who grew up with extra watchful parents are now carefully eyeing their parents' every move.
While phones lacked tracking technology when Shafer was younger, her parents set hard limits on which hours she could use her first cellphone and whom she could contact.
She described her mom and dad's parenting style as "very typical of overbearing parents, especially immigrant parents."
And more parents are tracking their kids in college to help quell their anxiety about the separation.
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