Garmin  Bounce 2 - Kids'

I am a Garmin user myself, so I wanted to be able to share that love with my young boys. Tracking steps and being able to give points for chores in the app has been very useful. I wish the battery life was a bit longer because getting my kids to take them off to charge the is challenging. There is an additional subscription required to be able to give access to make calls, but I find this feature really handy if dropping your kids off at a play date. The quality is just like the adult Garmin models!

Aesthetically beautiful. However, the connection is terrible. I purchased for my kindergartener to use at school so we would be able to track them. As soon as they enter the school, I can no longer track, refresh, or live track. I might get lucky and it’ll refresh once or twice. I also bought my child “the tile” and I have connection through that gps so it’s not the school. The app is great, the functionality is all there just can’t use it to its full capacity if I can’t locate my child.

We purchased the bounce 2 for my daughter who is nine so that she can stay connected even when her busy schedule takes her away from the home. So far we are enjoying the features it did take a few minutes to get it kind of connected but the support team at Garmin was wonderful and within just a few minutes he was able to figure out why it wasn't connecting. We also purchased the LTE service, so far that works pretty well around where we live, but she did go to grandma's house which is a little bit further away from cities and towns and it was a little bit spotty service but still it worked as expected. We are enjoying the features it is a lightweight watch which allows her to wear it all day pretty comfortably. She wears it to forest school to various camps, It allows her to stay connected even when she's not with family So far we are enjoying the features and find the watch to be a great way to allow her to be connected to family without a phone.

Super helpful for having a way to get ahold of my kiddos that doesn't require a phone. It does require you purchase an additional LTE subscription but I have found the services is spotty. When they're on a recognized WiFi we add then it's reliable but outside of that we find it hard to get ahold of them, messages take a long time to send/receive and their location doesn't update very quickly. I have other friends with the watch who say they have the same experience/issues with the connection. The kids love the activity features, games and "pets". It also has a great battery life.

I bought this for my son who loves to explore the outdoors, and allows us to communicate with him and know his location.

I bought this for my 11 year old daughter so that she can text or call us. I especially wanted it for sports practice and after school if pick up times change. It has been great so far! she is able to use it and its very simple. She likes that it tracks her activities and plays music through amazon music. She wishes it came with new watch bands. I'm still trying to figure out how to change the watch band. I like the app and its simplicity. I wish that when she texts or calls me that a notification would stay on saying "new message" or "unread message".

We bought tune a bounce 2 about a month ago for our son. So far it has met our expectations, there are sometimes a long delay of a couple minutes for locating though. The call and voice message parts have worked great. Our son loves it too, and has used the music function with a thumbs up, but this drains battery faster obviously. We are located in Southern Ontario if anyone is wondering. Overall, it's been a good purchase, and finding a code for 20% off is what helped us go ahead with buying.

I’ll start with the watch as a unit: it’s nice. It’s nice to look at, has good graphics. But, if you bought it for tracking your kid or communicating with your kid, it’s absolutely useless. I have tried to reach out to Garmin, and yes, the watch does have LTE service and it still won’t function. An absolute waste of money. Had I not given these to my kids for Christmas, I would have returned it so fast. Also, the battery: 100% when they leave the house for school at 745am, down to 4% while my kid is walking up The driveway from the bus. It’s a miracle if it makes it until he gets home. Absolutely horrendous. Each and every time I have tried to contact my child, it doesn’t work. Even when they have LTE coverage. Sometimes, when in the house on WiFi, it doesn’t even work. In terms of practical application, an absolute failure. I am so disappointed.

This is the perfect product if you are not ready to allow your kid to have a smart phone. My son is 11 and I don't think he is ready for a number of reasons. This bridges the gap to allow us to contact him anytime we need to or for him to contact us. The monthly cost is low and reasonable. Setting up a family network allows for us to stay competitive on steps daily as well as overall activity level. Its great for the whole family.

As our 9 year old gains independence, the upgrade to phone calls has been great. Would absolutely love for whitelist phone numbers - older neighbors and family members without smart phones would be able to engage if the watch had a phone number & their number could be whitelisted. The necessity of having a smart phone to contact/be contacted by the watch is the biggest drawback by far.