Mar 16, 2018 5:36 PM
coolwaterNJ
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CaffeineManic
Good to know you're raising smart(ass) kids.
Cranbananarama
That's why you put them in a soundproof lockbox. The devices can also be kept somewhere where they won't bother you.
PassiveAggressivation
She looks pretty but also a little evil too, like her kids
Need2Vent
"Factory reset"
pylatt
The same thing happened when my English teacher took my iPod Touch...
Swiggy1957
Just passed it on to my granddaughters. Heh heh heh.
glitterage
Amateur. I change the wifi password every bedtime and only give the new one out to my kids when they do their chores and their homework.
AtsaMattaForYou
with jumper cables?
pr0toc0l
Good job at actually being a parent! more of thats needed these days. Brilliant strategy Kids, keep up the diabolical thinking!
Why wouldn't you turn them off?
secretoaster
Before I realised they are her kids I thought she was some kind of reversed evil tooth fairy or something.
wibblewobbledibbledabble
What an alarming message they are sending you
Balisarius
Hah! Fight the power you little bastards!
LeadByBadExample
(Fight the power!) Fight the powers that be!
HaberdasherInGold
Hack the planet!
d3jake
I know some kids who won't get them back in the morning.
Xenarion
You should have turned them off.
Imalwaysready
Is it more impressive if they all did it as a team, or if each one individually came up with and implemented the idea on their own device?
squirrelkng
Times have changed, I remember saving for a year to get a mini-tv in my room, I didn’t even have a Cel till after I was 21.
foregonecontusion
My kid found a digital metronome, set it, and hid it under our armoire. Took us 2 days to figure out what was making the clicking noise.
excellentBalls
Why would she take away their phones? That's an excellent way to make your kids hate you.
CompassBear
Why do they need their phones at night, when they should be sleeping?
Have you ever been a teenager? Seriously.
Reidsb
The job of a parent isn't to make their kids like them all the time.
ReadySetBake
"Siri, delete all alarms". Cancelling the alarms works as well (turns them off but doesn't delete them).
NerdN1
What's the password?
Lokicik
No need to know. Long press Home button and tell Siri to cancel them.
TheMightyJoe
why the fuck does a kid younger than 12 need a phone for? oh yeah lazy shitbag parents
BabblesTheBirdKing
How does that make them lazy shitbags?
here take this bright screen to interact with instead of me, your parents.
OobedoobScoobyDoobyBenubi
How about just not giving kids those things in the first place? They don’t need those things til they’re at least 14-16
Blackheartedsilphy
TracFone till they're at least 13. In the event that they get seperated, or need emergency help.
justanotheravocado
Unpopular opinion prompt
wouldntyouliketobeapeppertoo
A lot of public schools have them as young as kindergarten for teaching/learning purposes.
And if they can't have those devices then why not also take away their Xbox, PlayStations, and computers right?
apbadogsZ
Just power them down.
cassafrasquatch
That doesn't affect alarms that are set, they'll still go off
NuggetsForKitty
My android phones always do the alarm when turned off unless it's off because its dead.
Syntox94
phone ask if you want to turn the alarm off when you shut down the phone
espressoandpostrock
Lol?
saberd58
Is this true?? Do Apple products do this? I must know
Nathanyel
I wouldn't put fuckery like that beyond them.
All my phones from the earliest Nokias to my OnePlus have this functionality.
flyelectro8888
IIRC, you can set up Android devices to switch on and off at certain times too.
GuW69
As a kid, I used to tune the SW/MW/LW bands on the radio after bedtime and read books, I still do, but I used to, too... Fuck I'm old...
faelmist
I and my swimming team did this to our coaches when we were racing abroad. From then on they'd collect the batteries alone.
EconomyWarf
My swimming team and I*
Cheers. It really didn't sound good but I couldn't put my finger on it.
How many kids had spare batteries?
BishlamekGurpgork
Lots of devices don't have removable batteries anymore. Powering them down as you collect them is easy enough.
Not for alarms though: your phone will ring even if turned off.
If you lock the phone, it'll ring, but not if you power it down.
NickRivieraMD
uh... thefuq kinda phone you got? it'll ring if the sound is turned off but not if the device is, on most phones.
zma123456
I wouldn't ground my kids for this, for this clever behavior I'd probably take them out to some place they would like.
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
and leave them to pay the bill (or do the dishes).
SithElephant
At 5:30AM
secretagentdoubleobeaver
Perfect
DreadCarcass
Thats bad parenting... they acted maliciously based on you denying electronics at night, thats a grounding not a reward
Depends on their intentions/context. They might have just did it as a joke (and a quite funny one at that).
I'd hardly call playing a prank like that malicious.
InRetrospectIShouldveLearnedToSwimBeforeBecomingaSailor
Exactly. Now if they did it to someone else, thats a different story...
Revnis
Little shits wouldn't be getting them back
That would be theft.
Can't tell if you're joking or in 6th grade...
Huh, neither. Teachers can't permanently keep something that belongs to a kid (or their parents).
Since this was the parent...
... I seemed to have mixed up threads. I thought your comment was still under another talking about teachers. Forgive me.
LurkMasterP
Play all their games, lose all their progress.
coderpete
That seems ... disproportionately cruel.
MisterD90
Or stab them
thelucideel
Vicious
Muricanmania1
Mechlai
That's actually a pretty good idea.
lawideas
"Well, I couldn't get back to sleep after that alarm, so I played your games all night. Sorry about your progress."
MyMiddleNameIsAllen
Goodbye, sweet rare shinies.
Sbotkin
How can you do it without unlocking the phone first?
HMRyuuza
Parental Control - Data/Wifi - set schedule - roll 2d6 for as many times as you please. They'll find something else to do with total lockout
While making the data/wifi cut out a seemingly random, will keep em using it longer >:)
BinaryDomain
Wow, easy there Satan.
LivingWaters
mumumumumysharona
warmNchewey
Whoa there Satan. Gaming is serious for some of us lol. A judge may look past a murder case over that.
TheLonelyRoseGamer
Agreed.
twocatsgluedbacktobacktodefyphysics
Just not plebian mobile gaming.
NateintheNorth
*factory resets everything*
iLikeBlue
delete any backups first!
LetumComplexo
“Sorry, I couldn’t figure out how to turn the alarms off.”
"Hey, I, um, got you a new phone. Kinda."
herekittykitty69
Damn boo, that's next level savage.
OH YEAH
Macewindow54
They have demonstrated teamwork planning and ingenuity. There are more of them than you. Are you sure you want to start this war?
mattman324
Do that, and it's not a war anymore - it's pest control.
feeltheice
I started it with my roomates kid. She learned that I was serious about throwing away toys that didnt get picked up.
tomyironmane
That's not starting the war, that's *ending* it.
This won’t end it. This will just provoke them.
then you have failed to teach them the consequences of escalation.
CaffeineManic
Good to know you're raising smart(ass) kids.
Cranbananarama
That's why you put them in a soundproof lockbox. The devices can also be kept somewhere where they won't bother you.
PassiveAggressivation
She looks pretty but also a little evil too, like her kids
Need2Vent
"Factory reset"
pylatt
The same thing happened when my English teacher took my iPod Touch...
Swiggy1957
Just passed it on to my granddaughters. Heh heh heh.
glitterage
Amateur. I change the wifi password every bedtime and only give the new one out to my kids when they do their chores and their homework.
AtsaMattaForYou
with jumper cables?
pr0toc0l
Good job at actually being a parent! more of thats needed these days. Brilliant strategy Kids, keep up the diabolical thinking!
PassiveAggressivation
Why wouldn't you turn them off?
secretoaster
Before I realised they are her kids I thought she was some kind of reversed evil tooth fairy or something.
wibblewobbledibbledabble
What an alarming message they are sending you
Balisarius
Hah! Fight the power you little bastards!
LeadByBadExample
(Fight the power!) Fight the powers that be!
HaberdasherInGold
Hack the planet!
d3jake
I know some kids who won't get them back in the morning.
Xenarion
You should have turned them off.
Imalwaysready
Is it more impressive if they all did it as a team, or if each one individually came up with and implemented the idea on their own device?
squirrelkng
Times have changed, I remember saving for a year to get a mini-tv in my room, I didn’t even have a Cel till after I was 21.
foregonecontusion
My kid found a digital metronome, set it, and hid it under our armoire. Took us 2 days to figure out what was making the clicking noise.
excellentBalls
Why would she take away their phones? That's an excellent way to make your kids hate you.
CompassBear
Why do they need their phones at night, when they should be sleeping?
excellentBalls
Have you ever been a teenager? Seriously.
Reidsb
The job of a parent isn't to make their kids like them all the time.
ReadySetBake
"Siri, delete all alarms". Cancelling the alarms works as well (turns them off but doesn't delete them).
NerdN1
What's the password?
Lokicik
No need to know. Long press Home button and tell Siri to cancel them.
TheMightyJoe
why the fuck does a kid younger than 12 need a phone for? oh yeah lazy shitbag parents
BabblesTheBirdKing
How does that make them lazy shitbags?
TheMightyJoe
here take this bright screen to interact with instead of me, your parents.
OobedoobScoobyDoobyBenubi
How about just not giving kids those things in the first place? They don’t need those things til they’re at least 14-16
Blackheartedsilphy
TracFone till they're at least 13. In the event that they get seperated, or need emergency help.
justanotheravocado
Unpopular opinion prompt
wouldntyouliketobeapeppertoo
A lot of public schools have them as young as kindergarten for teaching/learning purposes.
wouldntyouliketobeapeppertoo
And if they can't have those devices then why not also take away their Xbox, PlayStations, and computers right?
apbadogsZ
Just power them down.
cassafrasquatch
That doesn't affect alarms that are set, they'll still go off
NuggetsForKitty
My android phones always do the alarm when turned off unless it's off because its dead.
Syntox94
phone ask if you want to turn the alarm off when you shut down the phone
espressoandpostrock
Lol?
saberd58
Is this true?? Do Apple products do this? I must know
Nathanyel
I wouldn't put fuckery like that beyond them.
LeadByBadExample
All my phones from the earliest Nokias to my OnePlus have this functionality.
flyelectro8888
IIRC, you can set up Android devices to switch on and off at certain times too.
GuW69
As a kid, I used to tune the SW/MW/LW bands on the radio after bedtime and read books, I still do, but I used to, too... Fuck I'm old...
faelmist
I and my swimming team did this to our coaches when we were racing abroad. From then on they'd collect the batteries alone.
EconomyWarf
My swimming team and I*
faelmist
Cheers. It really didn't sound good but I couldn't put my finger on it.
NerdN1
How many kids had spare batteries?
BishlamekGurpgork
Lots of devices don't have removable batteries anymore. Powering them down as you collect them is easy enough.
faelmist
Not for alarms though: your phone will ring even if turned off.
BishlamekGurpgork
If you lock the phone, it'll ring, but not if you power it down.
NickRivieraMD
uh... thefuq kinda phone you got? it'll ring if the sound is turned off but not if the device is, on most phones.
zma123456
I wouldn't ground my kids for this, for this clever behavior I'd probably take them out to some place they would like.
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
and leave them to pay the bill (or do the dishes).
SithElephant
At 5:30AM
secretagentdoubleobeaver
Perfect
DreadCarcass
Thats bad parenting... they acted maliciously based on you denying electronics at night, thats a grounding not a reward
EconomyWarf
Depends on their intentions/context. They might have just did it as a joke (and a quite funny one at that).
CompassBear
I'd hardly call playing a prank like that malicious.
InRetrospectIShouldveLearnedToSwimBeforeBecomingaSailor
Exactly. Now if they did it to someone else, thats a different story...
Revnis
Little shits wouldn't be getting them back
Xenarion
That would be theft.
CompassBear
Can't tell if you're joking or in 6th grade...
Xenarion
Huh, neither. Teachers can't permanently keep something that belongs to a kid (or their parents).
Revnis
Since this was the parent...
Xenarion
... I seemed to have mixed up threads. I thought your comment was still under another talking about teachers. Forgive me.
LurkMasterP
Play all their games, lose all their progress.
coderpete
That seems ... disproportionately cruel.
MisterD90
Or stab them
thelucideel
Vicious
Muricanmania1
Mechlai
That's actually a pretty good idea.
lawideas
"Well, I couldn't get back to sleep after that alarm, so I played your games all night. Sorry about your progress."
MyMiddleNameIsAllen
Goodbye, sweet rare shinies.
Sbotkin
How can you do it without unlocking the phone first?
HMRyuuza
Parental Control - Data/Wifi - set schedule - roll 2d6 for as many times as you please. They'll find something else to do with total lockout
HMRyuuza
While making the data/wifi cut out a seemingly random, will keep em using it longer >:)
BinaryDomain
Wow, easy there Satan.
LivingWaters
mumumumumysharona
warmNchewey
Whoa there Satan. Gaming is serious for some of us lol. A judge may look past a murder case over that.
TheLonelyRoseGamer
Agreed.
twocatsgluedbacktobacktodefyphysics
Just not plebian mobile gaming.
NateintheNorth
*factory resets everything*
iLikeBlue
delete any backups first!
LetumComplexo
“Sorry, I couldn’t figure out how to turn the alarms off.”
LurkMasterP
"Hey, I, um, got you a new phone. Kinda."
herekittykitty69
Damn boo, that's next level savage.
NateintheNorth
OH YEAH
Macewindow54
They have demonstrated teamwork planning and ingenuity. There are more of them than you. Are you sure you want to start this war?
mattman324
Do that, and it's not a war anymore - it's pest control.
feeltheice
I started it with my roomates kid. She learned that I was serious about throwing away toys that didnt get picked up.
NateintheNorth
tomyironmane
That's not starting the war, that's *ending* it.
Macewindow54
This won’t end it. This will just provoke them.
tomyironmane
then you have failed to teach them the consequences of escalation.