A Tennessee father who followed his eight-year-old daughter to school with a drone has now decided to ground it in the wake of the attention his flight has garnered.

According to WVLT, a Knoxville, Tennessee television station, Chris Early decided to launch a drone to monitor his child's walk to school after she requested that she be allowed to walk on her own.

The move got some local media attention earlier this week, and other news sites picked up on it; Time magazine even dubbed him the “World's Most Embarrassing Dad.”

"It was something kind of fun to do just to let her know I'm watching her and stuff like that," he told WVLT. "But it's not something I'm going to be doing everyday."

WVLT’s video footage appears to show a DJI Phantom 2 taking off. (Ars reviewed and crashed this very model in June 2014.)

Early did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment.