“Ignore No more” app for kid’s phones

[Misfit]

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08...no-more-app-to-get-teen-kids-to-return-calls/

As CBS 2’s Alice Gainer reports, Sharon Standifird, was livid the day she called and texted her teenagers and they didn’t respond.

Once she knew they were safe but ignoring her calls, she got an idea, Gainer reported.
“We need to develop an app that just shuts their phone completely down and they can’t even use it,” Standifird said. “And I started — literally just started researching how to develop an app.”

So after months of design and working with developers, “Ignore No more” was born.

 

[GURPS]

Parents - You cannot hide from them

 

[MJ]

Or you could just take it away. :shrug:

 

[Toxick]

Or you could just take it away. :shrug:

Which do you think is more effective?


A teenager out with his friends, all of whom are sending texts, taking selfies, and being too-cool-for-school and suddenly his phone is completely useless. Immediately and with extreme prejudice. And they know why.

OR:
They get home you give them a lecture and take away their phone.








If I was a teenager, I know which one would get my attention faster and more thoroughly. You embarrass me in front of my friends, I will do ANYTHING to make it stop. You give me a lecture and take away my ####, the only result you will see is a bunch of eye-rolling and if you're lucky an 'I HATE YOU!' tantrum.

Teenagers are funny creatures. Neither foresight nor hindsight are their strong suits. Immediate gratification is all. So predictable and easy to manipulate when you know where to apply force.