Have you ever lost track of your kid? Many years ago I was changing my son’s diaper in the SJC airport. My wife had gone to the restroom and left our 3 y/o daughter with me too. In the blink of an eye my daughter disappeared. Now we were in an airport past security. A pretty ideal place to lose your kid all things considered. And it turned out our daughter had just followed after her mom and had gone into the women’s restroom, which is what I figured. But it was still fucking terrifying not knowing where my daughter was for a few minutes.

I still wouldn’t put trackers on my kid. And we were never those parents that leashed our kids. But I don’t judge parents that do.

When we went to things like the state fair, I’d write my cell # on my kids palm and gave them instructions: “if you get lost, ask a woman for help.”

It’s still damn scary losing your kid though.

I don't follow. Are you saying that they're "shitty" because they're worried about their missing child? Or that the kid got lost in the first place?

It's shitty to worry about your kids when they are missing? Maybe you wrote that backwards?