Maybe you gave your child a smartphone to know where he is at all times and thus be more calm. And then discover that no matter how much you write or call him, he never responds.
Nick Herbert was tired of his 13-year-old son, Ben, ignoring his text messages. So this father, project manager of West Wickham, in England, developed an application that locks the teenager's phone until he answers.
In Babies and more, almost 70 percent of children between 10 and 15 have a cell phone, and more girls than boysIt is called ReplyASAP and although it is only available for Android, its creator has promised that it will soon work for iOS too.
Y if you wonder if it works when your child leaves his phone in silence, the answer is yes. In these cases, the application activates an alarm to get the user's attention, forcing the adolescent to stop what he is doing and answer his parents if he wants to regain access to his phone.
"He is always playing and has the phone in silence. It drives me crazy", explains Herbert to PureWow. This British father has commented that now he and his son have reached an agreement: they use the application "Only for important things."
The free application has been downloaded more than 75,000 times.
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Isn't it a bit exaggerated?
Maybe the measure is a bit extreme. But when you've already sent 17 text messages to your child "Where are you?" Without receiving an answer, you might consider taking stronger measures.
If with this app, you do not get it to respond in seconds when you hear an alarm sound insistently, nothing will be achieved.
In Babies and more The best seven parental control applications to protect children on the InternetIf you are the father or mother of a teenager, you may understand this Briton and there comes a time when you at least consider trying this application, when it is impossible to reach an agreement to use the mobile. For now, at least we know it exists. And that each one do what he thinks fit to take care of his children as well as possible.
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