Do you ever worry about your child getting lost in the middle of an unfamiliar city and you won’t be able to find them?

Stretchmarks podcast host Sinead O’Moore said she and her young family were “really looking forward” to a trip to Rome together. 

However, with two children of five and eight, Ms O’Moore said she began to worry about what might happen if they got separated. 

“I have been away on loads of trips with my children,” she explained on Lunchtime Live. 

“I give them plenty of freedom in the playgrounds and swimming pools and the beaches. 

“But this was a moment of us in a city; we are going to be surrounded by thousands of other tourists.

“And what happens if I take my eye off them for a second?” 

After she had a nightmare that her five year old had been kidnapped by a tour group, she decided to buy air tags, which allows her to track their movements on her phone. 

“This was like one of those moments where you're like, I can't have that happen,” Ms O’Moore said. 

“I can't have that happen; so, we got the air tags.”

Ms O’Moore bought the tags on Amazon and usually pins them to their backpacks. 

“You can have little key chains,” she said. 

“It looks really cute - like a little cute keyring of a rabbit or something.

“It just means that if for any reason we got separated as a family, immediately I could go into the find my app on my phone and I could see where they were.”

Main image: An Apple AirTag. Image: Wachiwit/Alamy