I remember growing up, we would take nice vacations. My dad would ALWAYS have us connected with walkie talkies (you know, the BIG ones from the days of old with the big antennas? Ya, those….) and they were very difficult to carry around! Especially when you are trying to enjoy Disneyland and want to go on rides! Ugh..
My dad would always want to know when EXACTLY we would all meet up (hey, I had a big family, 8 people to be exact…), so we could eat lunch or dinner together or just regroup. We always knew where each other was, because of these large walkie talkies, but like I said they were a pain to carry around and we all had to take turns holding them..
Then it was about the battery dying. Oh how we hated that! When that happened, we all just hung out together and that was very irritating with 7 other people wanting to go their own ways and on different rides! Talk about WAITING to do things!! It was far worse than the lines you stand in to wait for the rides! It was DOUBLE waiting!! No wonder I have no patience, LOL...
(My Mom was taking the picture)
It is not fair, because now a days you all have it EASY. You just carry a TINY cell phone and you can call whomever you want at anytime. Phhhhh… whatever! That would have been so nice when I was little!
If only we did have cell phones and the handy Verizon Family Locator app. Seriously, life would have been less caotic! The Verizon Family Locator can be accessed from your PC, phone or tablet. It allows you to enjoy the comfort in knowing where your family’s phones are, anytime, anywhere. It is a simple and secure service and man we could have used this!
Now, my kids are small still, but they will grow.. sigh 
And when they do, I want to know where they are at, I just do. You can call me paranoid but I don’t care! I want to know the where abouts of my precious gems. So, this app will come in handy for when they are older. The app is only $9.99 and you can get it free for 30 days, to try out and see if it is a good fit for you and your family. I think that is pretty cool.
Check out this video below, for more info on this great family app:
So, how do you keep track of your family when they are doing their own thing?
Disclosure:
I was contacted by the company to write this post, story above is true and my very own!
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I am older than you are- we communicated by yelling
No, really we just didnt run off we had to stick close by.
It looks like a neat app@!
Yeah, I don’t think that going off on our own was ever an option when we were kids – everyone had to stay together until we were old enough to be there without parents.
Each group of us kids would go off with another parent, not by ourselves
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Verisimilitude is awesome! Even more so with this great app! When I was young..way back when…we had to stay together…boring!
Back then when we went on family trips, it took us almost forever to find each other because we would vacation with most of the cousins. We didn’t even have a walkie talkie back then. We would just wait for each other at a specified spot and just hope the others would hurry and show up. Nowadays, we all keep in touch with cellphones. I did hear about the Verizon family locator app, but never tried it. Sounds like it’s worth a try.
What fun memories! To think of how easy we make life with our cell phones! I remember my mom and dad having them between two cars when we would have to take more than one car on a trip!
We use my hubby’s two-way radios and cell phones!
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been a long time since we have taken a trip like this, I really don’t know how we kept up with each other, guess we just hunted until we found each other.
When I was a kid, we didn’t do the amusement park thing. We went camping, and were permitted to go off in pairs (as age-appropriate, of course) as we wished. Our parents had spent years teaching us the rules of camping, and we learned so much. At the beach, we were always together. On the rare occasions when I was a teenager that I got to go off alone, it was with a strict time to meet back, and that time wasn’t usually far off.
Now my kids have both had cell phones for years, and they’re 12 and 13. The can go to friend’s houses, or to their dad’s, and they can call anytime. Another bonus is texting. When I was a kid, I was at a 5th grade graduation party, and there was beer. I needed to call my mom to come and get me. But I had to ask my friend’s parents to use their landline phone – in the kitchen where anyone could hear. I was humiliated, even though I’m proud I did the right thing. My kids, on the other hand, can send a “come get me” text without anyone being the wiser. And with this app, that’s all it would have to be. No directions, nobody calling you a goody-two-shoes. Three words, and I can be on my way to my kid, thanks to Verizon.
my daughters are 21 and 19 and i still like to keep track of them unless the want money..lol
my son is almost sixteen and i keep track of him with his cellphone .