Overbearing parents insist college-bound teen to keep her Life360 location on so they can see what she's doing at all times, teen wants to disable the feature so she can stop feeling surveilled: ‘They're a bit overbearing and controlling about where I go’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Sep 9, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

When parents don't trust their children, they helicopter them until their children start lying to them. The freshman college student in this next story considers threatening to turn off her Life360 location-sharing permissions after they reveal they look at her location more frequently than she'd like.

In the digital age, we're privy to too much information most of the time. Social media insists we share the latest hole-in-the-wall restaurant we dined at over the weekend, which yoga studio we frequent (once a month), and how many selfies we take of ourselves on a weekly basis. Even still, we need to know more. Location-sharing is common between family and friends, and is normalized with the caveat of safety, which is partly true.

The other, more uncomfortable reason? Surveillance. Sure, it makes sense for a 13-year-old to share their location with Mom and Dad when they're out and about, but a 19-year-old college freshman? Freedom exists in many forms, and to this teen, that means breaking free of the shackles of constant oversight from her overbearing parents. Commenters under the story reminisce on the days when "It's 10 PM, do you know where you're children are?" was the only reminder for their parents that they even existed. Scroll below to read the full story.

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