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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @07:34AM (1 child)
So, you're basically claiming that children are chattel property of some other human.
You did bad things as a child, therefore all children must be treated as the slaves you claim them to be!
Either humans have rights (such as the right to life, which demands they are the sole owner of the body they inhabit) at ALL ages, or they have rights at NO age.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday August 29 2017, @07:53PM
Oh please. You're being hyperbolic with chattel property. As for me being bad as a child, I think you need to step back, look at children in general, and realize just what it is you are saying.
Children have human rights because they're human. What they don't have is the experience, wisdom, strength, physical size, etc., etc., etc. to live in an adult world without subsidization or adults specifically tasked to taking care of them. We call those people parents.
Slaves!???
BWAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAAAHAAHAAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Life comes full circle. You've reminded me of myself at 11 years old loudly proclaiming to my parents my knowledge of rights, and slavery, and all of the sophisticated intellectual reasons WHY I WAS A SLAVE BECAUSE I HAD CHORES. Yes, I was a slave. How dare they dictate that it was my job to take out the trash, clean the dishes, or mow the lawn. Straight up fucking chattel slavery!! Emancipation Proclamation!! Emancipation Proclamation!! I'm not your slave because of Lincoln dad!!
LOL.
Keep telling my how kids are slaves then. I'm not going to lie. It makes me beam with this huge smile. I'm just one big huge slave master ;P
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