Ignore No More

Ignore No More

Tired of her kids ignoring her phone calls, this Texas mom taught herself how to develop an app and created “Ignore No More.” “We need to develop an app that just shuts their phone completely down and they can’t even use it,” Sharon Standifird, a mother of two, told ABC 13. “I got on the Internet and I literally just started researching how to develop an app.” Once parents install the app, they will be able to take control of their children’s smartphones when they believe their phone calls or messages are being ignored. The app’s Web site claims that all parents need to do is put in their kid’s names and enter a four-digit code, and the kid’s smartphone will be immediately locked. Kids won’t be able to play games, access the Internet or call anybody else unless they return an ignored call or message from their parents.

Read the full story at The Washington Post.

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