Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Kids have always been a little difficult.
Technology may have made things worse, as the young tend to know more about tech than their parents do.
They know, for example, how to ignore mom and dad and do whatever they like.
Nick Herbert found this a touch frustrating.
Kids have a habit of simply not replying to texts. Not because they're bad kids, but, well, they're doing something more interesting on the phone -- like playing a game.
So, as CBS News reports, Herbert conceived ReplyASAP. This is an app (currently available only on Android) that forces your child to address your texts.
By annoying the living hell out of them.
[...] Herbert insists that ReplyASAP is meant to be used only in emergencies. This isn't about annoying your kids all the time, however tempting that might be.
Indeed, he told me that it's not about forcing your child to reply. Instead, he said: "It is simply a means of getting an important message to the child, even when they have their phone on silent, and for the parent to know they have seen it."
[Ed Note - Updated Google Play link to correct a typo]
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(Score: 3, Informative) by vux984 on Monday August 28 2017, @11:48PM
If the child has the phone on silent because they are in class or at a movie or eating dinner with a friend -- then they should be applauded for being polite and respectful.
Then the child then doesn't look at their phone for several hours, thus being ignorant of the message you sent for hours. Perhaps they even left it in their school bag, downstairs with their shoes and then spent the afternoon upstairs chatting/playing games/whatever. And in your house this a punishable offense?
Is the explanation that you are some sort of crazy asshole control freak?
The children must check their device for new instructions every 15 minutes OR ELSE ?
If that is the communication channel you have, then that is the communication channel you use. What does that have to do with the quality of parenting. My kids can receive SMS, and if they're on wifi have a number of other apps they use for messaging. Plus lots of kids don't have phones at all; including apparently yours the minute the battery dies and they fail to respond to you immediately. Are those the best parents or the worst?
I don't know about "everyone" but I do think you're doing it wrong.
What does that achieve? If *I* set my phone to silent going into a movie, I often don't catch it, and miss all messages and calls for hours after the movie, often its mid-morning before I notice.