Cellular Chaperone
By Ashley Perryman

Now parents with small children have a way to be sure their children arrive safely at school. On Monday, Verizon Wireless launched a new product called the Cellular Chaperone. The cellular set enables parents to track their children from their own phone or a computer. Within two minutes the tracking program can locate the child's phone within a fifty meter radius and can even tell you how fast the phone is traveling.

Verizon manager Antonio Moore says the phone will help parents monitor their child's safety.

“ Your child, in the morning, leaves to go to school so you expect to get a text message when they arrive at school and when they leave from school, but if you never get that text message telling you that your child arrived at school then you can also call your child on their handset to make sure everything's okay,” he said.

Moore said a version for teenagers is in the works. The kids' phones can call four pre-set numbers only. The teenagers' model is a regular cell phone.