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Mom creates app so kids can’t ignore her calls

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Sharon Standifird served in the Gulf War. She’s climbed mountains.

So how hard could it be to get her kids to show a little respect?

Her teens, you see, tended to do what teens do. So when she called them on their cell phones, their natural instinct was to press “ignore.”

What’s a mom to do? Get mad? Or get spectacularly, ingeniously even?

She chose the latter. She began to consider what sort of app might get her teens to see the light. The result was Ignore No More.

This charming addition to her kids’ phones does something very simple: if the kids don’t pick up mom’s calls, the app locks their phones.
via cnet

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