Just my thoughts, but I think George needs a new mum.
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Normal for a London journalist
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Just goes to show that one should be careful about what programs one allows to be operating on a mobile phone / tracking device.
Answer perhaps is to turn the darn thing off.
No, it’s not normal, but it is usual. Helicopter parenting! Just dire.
Gone are the joyous days when I first went abroad at 18 to Yugoslavia and the only contact my mother had was a postcard from me that arrived after I got back. 
She was reasonable relaxed because I’d gone with a friend who was a member of the Baptist Church in Sutton and it was an organised group. Things were easier for parents and teenagers in those days.
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“I’ve also made it my business to know his timetable.”
A pity she can’t let him get on with his life, he’ll make mistakes but I bet she did too, time to let him grow up his way.
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Probably just journalist column fodder. Possibly not something in reality to publicly admit.
Track and trace has also got many an errant spouse into hot water 
I think the really worrying thing is that you’re reading it and disseminating it via Survive France!
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LOLZ
I don’t have children and just wondered if what this woman is doing is now the new normal amongst parents and kids.
What’s wrong with that?
Seems pretty normal for right wing middle class parents who do lifestyle pieces for The Times, yes. 
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If any of this is real, I can see George is going to be in therapy for the rest of his life! I loathe the women journalists who use their families as material for their articles.
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George needs to move out and get a restraining order in place.
Or, if he’s a vindictive type, get a burner phone to stay in touch with friends and tape his tracked phone (silent mode inside of a black plastic bag) 3 metres up a tree in the local dogging spot or outside of a BDSM club.
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I was talking to a colleague who was just leaving to meet her husband and she mentioned that it was easy because he could see her location.
I sort of casually commented that it was interesting that they tracked each others location but she replied no, it was just him that could track her.
My somewhat involuntary, surprised “oh!” seemed to give her pause for thought and, after a moment, you could just see the penny drop.
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We set that up - reciprocally - a while ago, but forgot that we’d done it until friends came to stay and each excitedly showed us how s/he could track the other.
It can be useful if you remember you’ve done it!
If my husband ever as so much as hinted at getting a tracker app he’d be wearing concrete boots.
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I honestly couldn’t believe this was real, that maybe she’d fabricated it for clickbait or something. That’s why I had to ask if it was the new normal.
Yikes!
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I know at least one French family where they all track each other.
It’s not far me.
I think it is happening especially with neurotic parents. As for tracking spouse, it would be pointless in our house, I don’t always have my phone with me and I’m far too lazy to track the OH. Besides, if I can’t find him in the house he’s usually in his shed.
Nooooooo!
I would hate that.