[QUOTE=Maladroit;45734058]Parents do this shit all the time
My mom forgot where she put my fucking PSP when she took it away once[/QUOTE]
My mother once hid the remote for the TV in the fridge.
We didn't find it for [I]six months[/I]
[QUOTE=ilikecorn;45734041]My parents still called and checked up on me when I was 18, which is hilarious because I was married, and enlisted in the military. Yes it's creepy as fuck if you're activly tracking someone's location; but it's not evil/creepy if you're just making sure your kid is fine from time to time. It's part of being a good parent mang.[/QUOTE]I made a habit of keeping in contact with my parents/people I was living with because of some hard fucking lessons I learned. Being essentially held hostage by a meth addict ranting about the government, bats, and "food chemicals" while waving around a knife teaches you shit, like the importance of having a support network and to avoid visiting people who have spouses that abuse controlled substances.
I get mildly annoyed whenever some teenybopper bitches about their parents, it causes me to temporarily become 80 and start yelling at them about responsibility and VHS tapes.
[QUOTE=Maladroit;45733766]also what do you expect from a mom who calls her son "bradley"[/QUOTE]
Oi!!!
[QUOTE=Bradyns;45734916]Oi!!![/QUOTE]
I meant it as in using the long form of a name instead of "brad"
it's like "Joshua" or "Christopher"
My mom has a massive curiousity boner and will do shit like open your mail and go through all your drawers and hiding places to find hidden shit.
Wouldn't be such a big issue, but I'm in my thirties and have had my own house for years now.
I can tell when she's been over when the laundry basket is empty and there's no dust on the TV.
Just let them be
and if you really didn't want your children to spend time on their brand new expensive as fuck smartphones with all their chats and games here's an idea-
DON'T BUY THEM ONE
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;45734831]My mother once hid the remote for the TV in the fridge.
We didn't find it for [I]six months[/I][/QUOTE]
I shudder to think what kind of experiments you unintentionally have running in your fridge.
[QUOTE=counterpo0;45733853]Nah man all these youngsters today are always 90% on their phones even if they are hanging out in a social gathering. Facebook/texting/instagram. Eyes are glued to the screen.[/QUOTE]
Slightly different but I always found it ironic that my parents used to scold me for playing my Gameboy in public and now they're always on their phones during family & friends gatherings. I always take out my earphones and put away my phone whenever I'm talking to someone because I find it rude when people do it to me.
There's nothing wrong with keeping track of your kid, giving them a call, asking where they are, when they're gonna be home - that's to be expected. Making it so they [I]have[/I] to call you in order to call anyone else is just controlling and dumb.
from reading the reviews, it seems like they are changing the devices PIN to unlock, and when the lock's remove it completely removes any security you'd set
I feel like if that's the case its pretty bad, I don't think apps should have the ability to set passwords on the phone? I would check the app out to see how they make it so difficult to uninstall or disable but it costs $2
But what if the kid can't call back because they haven't got any credit on their phone?
[QUOTE=Darth_Kris;45735846]But what if the kid can't call back because they haven't got any credit on their phone?[/QUOTE]
This is the kind of thing that parents should really be monitoring. I know that my parents kept me on a contract specifically so I'd never end up [I]needing[/I] to call them, and unable to do so.
What's stopping a kid from like, leaving the phone at home?
I mean are phones really that necessary for kids below like, i dunno, 14?
[QUOTE=proch;45736055]I mean are phones really that necessary at all?[/QUOTE]
fixed that for you
You practically don't even need a phone
[QUOTE=Scratch.;45736129]fixed that for you
You practically don't even need a phone[/QUOTE]
I don't know man, I need my phone. Besides the obvious work stuff there's meeting up with people. I don't really like using facebook or skype for that kind of thing, for some reason the phones bigger formality over internet communicators makes people get more involved and motivated to go out.
Organizing a party over the internet is a nightmare, yet if you just pick a few numbers and call them one by one people are guaranteed to come. That's what It's like for me, anyway.
But more on topic, I almost completely didn't need my phone until like high school. The only people I called was my mother when I was a kid.
[QUOTE=proch;45736055]What's stopping a kid from like, leaving the phone at home?
I mean are phones really that necessary for kids below like, i dunno, 14?[/QUOTE]
I've seen kids who couldn't even read yet carrying around cellphones.
[QUOTE=LZTYBRN;45733974]My 20 year old girlfriend's overbearing christian mother made her install this "Life360" app that tracks her phone wherever it is, what her mom doesn't know is that turning off location services essentially renders the app unable to display anything but the phone's last location, without so much as notifying the other users that can view her location :v:[/QUOTE]
Does your girlfriend's mother know that forcefully tracking the location of an adult without true consent is illegal?
[QUOTE=Maladroit;45733766][IMG]http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/061204/consumer_Migo.grid-4x2.jpg[/IMG]
also what do you expect from a mom who calls her son "bradley"[/QUOTE]
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herd u were talkin shit
[QUOTE=ilikecorn;45734137]Yea it wasn't like they were dicks about it. It was "hey if you're not going to be home by midnight, just give us a call please".
I don't understand the whole "super strict" parent thing, as kids need the ability to fail in order to grow and learn and become healthy/successful adults.
I also don't understand the whole "teenage rebellion" thing that has been extremely popularized by hollywood. I guess I never rebelled against my parents because I didn't feel the need to, they had provided for me without fail for 18 years, they had allowed me to experience success and failure.
TL;DR:
Parents- Unfuck yourselves, your kids need to be able to fail sometimes in order to grow and be successful, too much parenting is just as counterproductive as under-parenting
Kids- Get over yourselves, your parents did indeed go through the same shit you did, you're not a special snowflake who's parents were magical and didn't have to deal with the annoyance of the teenage years. If your parents are worth anything at all, all they want is what's best for you, whether you believe it or not.[/QUOTE]
My ex had, and still has, an 8 pm curfew. We're both in college
Funnily enough she enjoys drinking and smoked weed before, while I don't and didn't
Fucking Texas.
[QUOTE=Telepethi;45736838]Does your girlfriend's mother know that forcefully tracking the location of an adult without true consent is illegal?[/QUOTE]
no, but at the same time my girlfriend isn't really able to go through with taking legal action against her mom
Also, couldn't kids install the app on their phone and shut down their parents'?
if your child is ignoring you there is a reason for it. why dont you find out why
If you're a shit enough parent that you need this and your kid is enough of a bag of dicks to need this, then you should be letting a military academy parent your kid, because you sure don't deserve to be.
[editline]19th August 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=LZTYBRN;45737311]no, but at the same time my girlfriend isn't really able to go through with taking legal action against her mom[/QUOTE]
Bro, this is the U.S. there are lawyers that will take the case pro bono unless you fucking win. Even then, you could easily talk the lawyer into a deal where they get all the money if it doesn't cover a standard legal fee and then just calling it even at that, shit if she has enough of a case, the parents could very easily be paying for both their lawyer and her lawyer as a condition of the lawsuit.
surely a kid could just save his contacts and numbers to the SIM, then wipe the phone and have no more app?
[QUOTE=Noss;45733951]If I had a child and needed to tell them something and they didn't answer their phone, I'd be pretty damn pissed, especially considering the majority of parents pay for their child's phone.
Helicopter parents often take this too far, but it's rude to completely ignore a call, especially from your parents, and not even text back.[/QUOTE]
What if you're not actually ignoring the parent. You just have your phone set to quiet and don't notice.
[QUOTE=Bobie;45737459]surely a kid could just save his contacts and numbers to the SIM, then wipe the phone and have no more app?[/QUOTE]
Aren't a lot of US phones simless?
[QUOTE=wraithcat;45737469]What if you're not actually ignoring the parent. You just have your phone set to quiet and don't notice.
Aren't a lot of US phones simless?[/QUOTE]
Simless phones? I've honestly never heard of that, but as far as I know both contract phones and pay as you go require simcards.
Verizon, at least in the US, doesn't use SIM cards.
[QUOTE=Durrsly;45737536]Verizon, at least in the US, doesn't use SIM cards.[/QUOTE]
How odd. That's actually pretty shit because you can't just put your sim into another phone and keep your number.
[QUOTE=draugur;45737343]If you're a shit enough parent that you need this and your kid is enough of a bag of dicks to need this, then you should be letting a military academy parent your kid, because you sure don't deserve to be.
[editline]19th August 2014[/editline]
Bro, this is the U.S. there are lawyers that will take the case pro bono unless you fucking win. Even then, you could easily talk the lawyer into a deal where they get all the money if it doesn't cover a standard legal fee and then just calling it even at that, shit if she has enough of a case, the parents could very easily be paying for both their lawyer and her lawyer as a condition of the lawsuit.[/QUOTE]
yeahhh there's a good chance that her mom is paying for her college or something and its more complicated than that.
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