If you speak to an adult child about their movements, bear in mind that they’re not 13 anymore. Photo Illustration by Ian Berry/CNN/Adobe Stock

I can see my twin sons driving down to Florida, tracking south on I-85 toward Panama City Beach.

I’m sure they won’t have noticed Newnan Towing Services and the Canongate 1 Golf Club flashing past the window as they pass through Coweta County, Georgia, but I can see it all on my smartphone, the detailed progress illustrated by their white initials inside gently pulsing gray circles on the location tracking app.

I am one of the millions of parents who’ve had the ability to locate their children from the day we bought them smartphones, wondering whether it’s still appropriate to track where they are now that they are young adults in college.

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