it’s a dedicated app at our school. But we don’t receive pics of any kid but ours- if she isn’t in the picture, we don’t receive it. You have to sign up and the school has to approve your access. So, some precautions, at least.
I like seeing her having fun at random intervals through the day. Or seeing that she has taken the lessons of her feline brethren and is now constructing boxes instead of houses out of the giant lincoln logs or insisting that the baskets are for sitting in not toy storage. If I had a kid who was less happy- the pictures might be more anxiety inducing. If she was older or disliked having her picture taken- then we might have a problem. Though her teachers are good about asking if she wants her picture taken.
Now- summer camp? Ergh. Not so sure. Maybe a few pics a week or one a day so I have something to tell my paranoia “Yes SHE IS ALIVE.” The kids probably find it really annoying- at the very least, it would have a tendency to take them out of the moment. By the time a kid is old enough to go to summer camp, they need to be exploring more of the world without their parents looking over their shoulder. Learning to make good decisions in an environment where they can make bad ones, but if they do, the consequences aren’t catastrophic. I think this surveillance-mode at the camp would be a big damper on that.
