Why your kid needs a smartwatch

Kids with smartwatches
Kids with smartwatches

Inspire your kid to do to their daily chores – it’s a win-win

With the Garmin Vivofit Jr 2, the parents can award points to their children for doing daily tasks and chores. The idea is these can then be traded for treats, so your children have an incentive to brush their teeth or play nicely with their siblings. The strap is soft and stretchy, making it comfortable to wear both day and night. Parents don’t even need to remind their child to charge their watch, because the battery lasts for up to a year.

The Fitbit Ace is another great choice especially in the sense that it is a great way to encourage and motivate kids to get moving. This smartwatch makes daily physical activity fun by tracking daily steps and providing rewards as well as badges for hitting certain goals.

The best benefit for a parent in my opinion for their child(ren) to have a smartwatch is the GPS tracking capability that the smartwatch supports. For as little as $5 to $10 a month, a parent can attach a working cellphone number to the smartwatch so as to be able to call their child with as well as the phone number makes it so that the GPS tracking capability is activated. if your child is out and about a lot with friends especially playing in the neighborhood, it is worth the extra $5 to $10 a month in expense for a parent to provide them with the peace of mind at the touch of a button to keep tracking of their kid and know that they are safe.

Top Smartwatches of 2018

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Apple Watch

1. Apple Watch

The Apple Watch has long since been everyone’s favorite smartwatch. Reason being, it fits right along with a huge population of many people who were already very invested in the Apple ecosystem prior to the Apple Watch’s debut. The Apple Watch became an accessory many people wanted for how it enhanced their Apple ecosystem experience. This ranges from the Apple Watch being able to unlock your Apple computer just by being on your wrist when you go to boot up the computer, to in a recent upgrade, gaining the capability of taking an ECG to track for irregularities in a person’s heart rhythm. If you yourself are heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem, including being the owner of an Apple iPhone, this is most likely the smartwatch for you.

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Apple Watch

2. Samsung Galaxy Watch

The Samsung Galaxy Watch is currently the most popular smartwatch in Android perspective. Just like the Apple Watch that functions at its fullest potential with the Apple iPhone, the Samsung Galaxy Watch functions at its fullest potential when paired with Samsung Android phone; reason being, it can house all of the native apps Samsung develops that can only be accessed through Samsung variants of Android smartphones. Some favorite features that I believe many could benefit from consist of being able to receive notifications such as email and text straight to the watch, as well as tracking steps, calories burned, miles traveled, stairs climbed, and current heart rate. Music can also be stored on this smartwatch and played through the watches speaker, or listened to through paired Bluetooth headphones.

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Samsung Galaxy Watch

3. Fitbit Versa

The Fitbit Versa is Fitbit’s second smartwatch next to the Fitbit Ionic. It is a smartwatch that combines some of the best features a smartwatch has to offer with the greatest perks offered by an activity tracker. The smartwatch can display the most pertinent notifications such as email, texts, and social media alerts. As far as activity tracking, the watch displays a continuous heart rate scans, steps taken, calories burned as well as miles traveled, stairs climbed, and active minutes. One of my favorite things though is the sleep tracking software built into it. It can identify R.E.M. sleep, light sleep, and deep sleep.

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Fitbit Versa