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Dad Creates App That Forces Kids to See Parents' Texts

posted by Fnord666 on Monday August 28 2017, @07:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the get-their-attention dept.

"exec" writes:

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, @06:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @06:46PM (#561006)

    Part of guiding a child into adulthood is teaching them that when someone else is providing your meals, your shelter, and your utilities, that entity gets to tell you what to do with those things, and otherwise lay down terms for whether or not those things will continue to be provided. That there's no such thing as a free lunch. Failure to teach these lessons has been shown to induce all manner of entitlement, leaving a child out of touch with reality. They get to make the rules for their own devices when they buy the phone and pay the bill for it, thereby reaping the reward of their labor (and incentivizing it in the first place).

    I'm sure your boss wouldn't impose any limitations on the company laptop you were assigned that he wouldn't be prepared to follow on his own device, right?