Mother releases a app to force children to call back parents and lock their phones on their demand

[Castdeath97]

 

Frustrated-mother-turned-evil-genius Sharon Standifird has developed Ignore No More, an Android app that gives parents the ability to lock their kid’s smartphone from afar, making it unwise to ignore mum’s phone calls.

 

The parent sets a password that can unlock the phone, which encourages their child to call back quickly so that they can access their smartphone’s other functions and applications.

“My son hates it and I love it,” Liane Parker wrote in her review of the app on the Google play store. “Love the idea, even good for bedtime when you want them off the phone,” reviewed Lamiya Keyes Mewborn.

 

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/ignore-no-more-mother-releases-app-that-prevents-kids-from-ignoring-calls-9674454.html

 

This application (which due to obvious restriction reasons won't come to iOS and is only in android now) is built literally the worst idea I ever heard.

 

Other than being easy to bypass (just do a factory reset in system recovery), it just plain stupid to do parenting that way, and it has the potential to get abused. If you want your child to answer back tell him why he should answer back, if he won't an app won't make him (go back and read the work-though and I'm sure people will come up with more, this is android after all).

[Askew]

Having to call a parent to unlock your phone isn't going to inspire polite or rewarding conversation, it will inspire tense and agitated exchanges while instilling a degree of bitterness, I don't think it is good for the parent/child relationship.

 

Just my opinion.

[Entropy]

Pretty sure this is a repost.

 

Edit: Can't find the original thread... Odd.

[Excon]

Its just for over worried parents. What ever helps them sleep at night. I doubt it will be used much if at all

[Speedbird]

At least my mum can't install it on my phone, she has to get through the lock screen first.

[ShadowCaptain]

Having to call a parent to unlock your phone isn't going to inspire polite or rewarding conversation, it will inspire tense and agitated exchanges while instilling a degree of bitterness, I don't think it is good for the parent/child relationship.

 

Just my opinion.

 

Agreed

 

Though I am close with my family, I would have no issue calling my mum or dad 

[Askew]

Though I am close with my family, I would have no issue calling my mum or dad 

 

Exactly, if those measures are needed to make your child want to speak to you, you're probably a cunt.

[ShadowCaptain]

Exactly, if those measures are needed to make your child want to speak to you, you're probably a cunt.

 

Yeah that's why I try and avoid speaking to you

[Sauron]

Blocking stuff is never the solution, but I can understand why prents would want this. The problem is that, again, this isn't the solution. If you want your son to call every once in a while to make sure he's fine, the best way to get him to do so is to calmly explain him why you are worried and that a simple phone call would make you feel much better. No son has any desire to hurt their parents in any way, but if you poke them they tend to poke back (for exmple "you must call me at this precise time or else" is begging for the son to ignore you), whereas treating them like responsible people and telling them the reason for what you are asking tends to yeald far better results.

[Askew]

Yeah that's why I try and avoid speaking to you

 

[bchampion96]

Just uninstall the app? How hard can it be?

[soup]

 If you want your son to call every once in a while to make sure he's fine, the best way to get him to do so is to calmly explain him why you are worried and that a simple phone call would make you feel much better.

 

Yeah 'cos talking sensibly to a thirteen year old always works,  NOT.

 

I don't think this app is the answer, kids have ALWAYS 'forgot/couldn't get to a 'phone(nowadays it's not "couldn't get to a phone" it's "I couldn't get a signal") etc' and always will, I feel it is down to the parents to instill respect and to give the kids a BIT of leeway.

[Sidiox]

Just uninstall the app? How hard can it be?

There might be a lock on it, there are some ways to do that. Although it is still a stupid app.

 

if you even think about needing this app the relationship with your kids is already screwed up....

Also in my household I as I kid have complete controle over all our pc's, smartphones, and networks, so it wouldn't have any use here....

[Sauron]

Yeah 'cos talking sensibly to a thirteen year old always works,  NOT.

 

I don't think this app is the answer, kids have ALWAYS 'forgot/couldn't get to a 'phone etc' and always will, I feel it is down to the parents to instill respect and to give the kids a BIT of leeway.

 

It can work, trust me. And anyway I didn't even have a phone until I was 13, let alone a smartphone. Part of being a parent is understanding wether your son is ready to use a tool responsibly, and if he isn't, don't buy it for him. If you buy it, don't complain that he abuses it; you should have known. A nokia 3310 is more than enough to call home for an emergency, no need to give them a 500$ phone.

[Thorium19]

This is in one sense ridiculous, because first the parent must upload the app onto the childs phone, so surely they will get wise to what it is and not let them install it. It's quite clearly an American trend this, as trying to do this in the UK just wouldn't work on a large scale. I can see the benefits of it, but it is certainly more likely to encourage violence and foul language than pleasantness and joy.

[Castdeath97]

Pretty sure this is a repost.

 

Edit: Can't find the original thread... Odd.

Don't worry checked the search function before posting, I'm a good boy 

[Castdeath97]

Just uninstall the app? How hard can it be?

It'll send a lame message to your parents implying it's being unistalled, but if you're rooted I'm sure there is a way to freeze it or block it.

[Ruostunut kokis]

If some parent ever needs this, they fail at parenting. There's so many ways this could be circumvented, and installing this kind of app for a child's phone just encourages children to do sh*t for their parent(s)' phone(s), like brick them (whether hardware wise (like smash to wall etc.) or software wise (do some shady ass sh*t)) or install spying software.

[PhantomChevron]

Erm, simple, install a special lock on your phone, such as Lockdown Pro and enable fake covers, and poof, everytime they try to enter, it will say it stopped working, simple and easy, you can hide the app also and get to it via the phone dialer.

[Castdeath97]

If some parent ever needs this, they fail at parenting. There's so many ways this could be circumvented, and installing this kind of app for a child's phone just encourages children to do sh*t for their parent(s)' phone(s), like brick them (whether hardware wise (like smash to wall etc.) or software wise (do some shady ass sh*t)) or install spying software.

or just plain use their tablets or computers instead, wow that mother must be the smartest developer I have ever met

[geogga]

Don't worry checked the search function before posting, I'm a good boy 

not

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/199397-new-android-app-will-stop-your-kids-from-ignoring-your-calls-or-to-prank-your-friends/

[Castdeath97]

not

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/199397-new-android-app-will-stop-your-kids-from-ignoring-your-calls-or-to-prank-your-friends/

Crap must have missed that, okay admin your free to delete the post

[Mooshi]

I have a better idea, stop giving iphones and Samsung Galaxies to toddlers and wait till they are at least midway through highschool to trust them with a phone.

[Ruostunut kokis]

I have a better idea, stop giving iphones and Samsung Galaxies to toddlers and wait till they are at least midway through highschool to trust them with a phone.

Well.. Maybe some basic phone at a young age would be good. I got my first phone (Nokia N-Gage) when I was a 7 year-old, and even though I did play games with it, the main purpose was communicating by calling or texting. Got my first smartphone at the age of 14, though. I think somewhere there would be a good age to get more advanced phones (or earlier if responsible enough).

[soup]

It can work,

 

 

Maybe it can, but generally... Having been a thirteen year old and both my son's having been thirteen years old I have first hand experience, and it seems not to matter how politely you tell/ask them to clue you in, as soon as they are out of earshot all thought of you goes out of there heads.  They didn't mean anything bad by it that is just the way a child's mind works.