I receive an email and a phone call every time they are late for school, miss school or miss an assignment. I recieve automatic emails when their report card is handed out, when parent teachers conference is. Technology SUCKS for teenagers but is GREAT for parents.
For those of you that follow me on Facebook know that I have been struggling with one of our teenagers and her text messages. She texted 12, 300 text messages last month. She is texting all during school, almost all night, and it is basically OUT OF CONTROL!
Well once again.. TECHNOLOGY IS A BITCH FOR TEENAGERS. I go online to pay our verizon bill and I see something that say "chaperon". So I click on it. For $4.99 a month I can control her phone usage. EUREKA!!! Here are the things you can do.
- set up times when they can't text, receive text, read emails, download anythings EXCEPT from the parents phone. SERIOUS CAN IT GET BETTER.... YEP IT CAN. You can do up to 10 restriction periods. So I have set up restrictions from 11:00 p.m. at night till 5:00 a.m. Sunday night thru Thursday night (she needs to be sleeping). Restricted her use from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m, except for 45 minute lunch period, Mon- Fri. (she needs to be doing school work).
- set up # of voice minutes they use. So she gets 500 minutes a month. Once that is gone the parent phone AND the child's phone gets sent a text and it gets shut off for the rest of the billing cycle. EXCEPT FOR THE PARENTAL PHONE!
- set the number of text message they can use in a billing cycle UNLESS you have unlimited text. So if your child has 1000 text messages on their plan you set it at 1000 and it stops till the first of the next billing cycle!
- THIS PERSONALLY IS MY FAVORITE. You can block numbers. Block numbers of people that SHOULD NOT BE GETTING A HOLD OF HER OR YOU DON'T WANT TO GET A HOLD OF HER. They have NO IDEA why the text and calls are not going thru they just know they are NOT...
- This one Sam and I have NOT chosen to do because it almost seems a bit OVER THE TOP. You can tracK on your computer exactly where the phone is AT ALL TIME. So your teen daughter says "Hey I am going to Billy's".... you can get on the computer and tract every where that phone goes (this is an additional 9.99 a month).
I kinda feel like in the day of instant access that IT IS ABOUT TIME we can take some "control" in who and when our kids are talking to. Some day they will understand why we have done what we have.
What do you guys think??? Obsessive or good parenting?
5 comments:
thats smart and cool so thay can not text 12,300 a month
I think teenage parents have the right to do ANYTHING. If it is a way to keep track of them and in line I think EVERYONE should be on top of what there kids are doing. I am just glad we did not have technologies. I may have had to go to school.
You should really kiss the guy who invented all of that! What a great thing for parents! I am dreading when I get to that point! I was going to comment on Sam's verbage but as I stared at the words, I couldn't even guess as to what he was saying!! I had no idea he was such a hick! Just kidding Sam!
We have had 4 teenagers so far some of them need "supervision" some of them don't. I wish SO bad this would have been an option for us. How is she dealing with it so far?
I would say that if they had made better choices, the parental controls would not have been necessary. Maybe just knowing that you CAN find her location is enough to get honest locations. I would hate for you and Sam to just show up, in your jammies, at the real location :)
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