VIVOplay allows children to easily reach their parents when they need to and lets parents call their children and track their child's location in the event of an emergency with a simple, custom-designed smartphone app.

ENGADGET: VivoPlay packs WiFi, GPS and a GSM connection for tracking, calling your kids (video)

In Joplin, the schools are open again, though just about every child is in a different location than he or she was before the tornado.

FORBES: High School Football Helps Tornado-Ravaged Joplin Cope With Its New Normal

Each fostered child should be able to live with a foster carer carefully chosen to match their specific needs in terms of location, lifestyle, language and culture.

BBC: Country needs 450 more fosterers