FAMBUSHING
Teens are tracking their parents’ locations and showing up, unannounced. Is "fambushing" an adorable trend or does it go too far?
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This is utterly stupid on a number of levels. The name is dumb (and very off-putting). If you wanted to name this concept (more on that later), why wouldn't you make it a variant of "stalking" or "snooping"? There's no ambushing involved in texting someone.
But really, my reaction to the whole concept is "What?". Now, parents track their kids' whereabouts, which is something one could have a legitimate discussion about. Right? But I've never heard of anyone being stalked by their kids, except perhaps Speaker Mike Johnson. If anything, the kids are monitoring their parents' whereabouts, so they can avoid them; not bug them.
What kid cares that their parent is at a Mexican restaurant? And they see their mom is at a store, and ask her to pickup something. So what? My wife and I do that all the time. I call bullshit on this so-called trend.