If a human being is to survive to adulthood, they must spend much of their early lives being watched over. But what happens when this form of care is mediated by smart technology? Technology which digitally monitors children has witnessed significant growth over the last ten years—from socks which monitor a baby’s biological signs, to software which tracks adolescents on the internet. This postdoctoral project addresses the ways in which new forms of monitoring are re-mediating the parent-child relationship. With a particular focus on the use of care-apps—applications on smart devices that geo-monitor children at a distance—it studies how this primordial relation between watcher and watched over is evolving. The research takes place in Germany, where the benefits and risks of this new economy have been the subject of heated debate.