Mum admits she wants to put tracking app on 27-year-old daughter's phone

A mum has admitted she wants to put a tracking app on her 27-year-old daughter's phone.

In the post, the mum wrote: "I'm asking for information and your experience with this. What is the name of a good app? How have you used them?

"My daughter is off travelling soon for 6- 9 months approx. Going to Bangkok to start with, Vietnam and so on. She's mid-twenties 27? hard to remember.

"So yesterday I mentioned a tracker app, as a friend had suggested it to me, and she just laughed. Think I may be able to persuade her.

"Your suggestions on how to convince her would be fab please. Why would she be likely to resent it? I can't imagine the issue with it.

"Any info would be helpful. Many thanks."

First of all, 'mid-twenties 27? hard to remember'... Come on, mum.

Secondly, a lot of people were baffled by the fact she couldn't see why her fully-grown daughter might object to being tracked.

While another wrote: "Are you serious? You have no right to do this."

And a third added: "She wants her privacy and she's a grown adult. You should respect that.

"I understand that you'll worry or spend time wondering about where she is but she's not a pre-teen who is new to going out alone so don't pressure her into it."

However, others weren't so dead against it, with some suggesting a compromise might be to let the daughter decide when to have such an app active.

"I think it's a brilliant idea to set it up and let her manage it so if there was a reason she felt she needed it she could just enable it," one person commented.

"The key thing is she's in control of when she's tracked. I know it kind of defeats the object but it's a good compromise."

One commenter suggested that she ask her daughter to contact her 'once a week', to which the mum said she was 'going to consider this', calling it a 'nice idea'.