GPS trackers when someone else is watching
Babysitters, nannies, and grandparents are not the other parent in a custody order. The device still belongs on the child. The adults get access you grant — or they do not.
Two homes is a legal and emotional structure. Saturday night with a sitter is logistics. Do not use a locator to audit an adult who did not agree to be the product.
What a sitter’s phone fails to show
The nanny’s phone is in the kitchen
Life360 on her device is her, not the toddler in the yard.
You wanted to know they got home
A home safe place still nudges. You do not need to watch the walk minute by minute.
Grandma does not use your apps
Authorised family can see the same map on her phone if you set that up. Or she is a call contact only.
Checking up on the sitter
That is employment surveillance. Say it plainly, or do not do it with a child’s locator.
What to set before you leave
Who is authorised on the map
Parents, maybe a grandparent. Not every adult in the house by default.
Whether the sitter is a call contact
Up to five. Useful in an emergency. Not a tracking target.
Whether you told them
A visible family map is the product. Hidden devices are the legal page.
Places for the evening
Home is enough. Do not geofence the sitter’s apartment unless that is actually the child’s place.
Evenings and afternoons
Home place on. You get arrive if they went out and came back. Follow is optional, not a test.
Share the map with grandma or do not. The child still wears the same device.
The pin is the child. If you needed her timesheet, that is software for adults.
Same as any family outing. Coverage, battery, rain — not a special sitter mode.
How Kin Watchdog works
Set up the tracker
Charge Kin One and switch it on. The SIM is already inside and already paid for — there is no carrier to call.
Add it to your family
Scan the code in the Kin app and name who wears it. Authorised family members see the same map on their own phones.
View location
Open the app for whether they arrived or left a place you named. Follow mode is a live position only while you are looking.
Create alerts
Draw a safe place — home, school, the yard. One nudge on arrival, one on leaving. Nothing in between.
- Parents who leave a child with a sitter or grandparent
- A toddler whose caregiver’s phone is not a proxy
- Households that will say the device is on the child
- Secretly tracking a nanny
- An employee monitoring product
- A custody fight — read two homes and the legal page
Find the right tracker for your family
Kin One
Worn as a watch, collar, or lanyard. Not a phone, not a smartwatch, and not a monthly tracking subscription.
Caregiver questions
Should the babysitter wear it?
No. The child wears it. Tracking the sitter as a person is a different, often unlawful, job.
Can the sitter see the map?
Only if you make them authorised family. Many households should not.
Can they be one of the five contacts?
Yes, if you want the child to reach them. That is calling, not tracking the adult.
Is this the coparenting page?
No. Two homes is for two authorised parents. This page is a third adult for a few hours.
Price?
$129.99 once, lifetime data, $0/month.
- GPS trackers for two homes — Kin Watchdog
- GPS tracker privacy — Kin Watchdog
- Kin One — Kin Watchdog
The child is on the map. The sitter is a person.
See Kin One to share a child’s pin with people you trust. Do not buy it to follow the nanny.