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re: What is the best software for a kids phone to know their location.
Posted on 11/2/14 at 10:40 pm to Dam Guide
Posted on 11/2/14 at 10:40 pm to Dam Guide
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Look up Waldorf Schools.
I'll read about it or ask my wife (she has a master's in elementary ed., so she may have some familiarity with the concept), but I'm guessing it's just another progressive/alternative take (i.e., opinion) on what kids should be learning and when and how. Everyone else is wrong and they're right and the best and blah blah blah. Since becoming a parent I have read so much shite about parenting and education, and nearly all of it boils down to an attempt to sell (keyword sell) a neatly, uniquely packaged idea, some of them more cult-like than others. Industries related to parenting and education can be highly predatory.
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Posted on 11/2/14 at 11:22 pm to ILikeLSUToo
Some of these guys are just whacked out! Kids could care less about the phones for the most part. It sits on her bedside table for a day or 2 at times. But when she is going out to ride her bike or play at someones house or any activity she is attending, I tell her to make sure she brings her phone. You guys really think a kid goes sit in their room and turn into an iphone zombie? LOL..geez you have no faith in yourselves, not your kids!
Everyone else FO, would the ones who actually know of solid cross platform apps, I would appreciate to hear.
But the rest of you losers who choose to sit at a keyboard and tell me what you think is good for my kids is laughable. It's your own guilt of your ways that make you think kids are the issue.
Everyone else FO, would the ones who actually know of solid cross platform apps, I would appreciate to hear.
But the rest of you losers who choose to sit at a keyboard and tell me what you think is good for my kids is laughable. It's your own guilt of your ways that make you think kids are the issue.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 12:28 am to GeeOH
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She is honor roll at the hardest Christian school in town, she's a state rated swimmer, and an even better volleyball player. She's in choir and piano at school and likes to run track in the springs
Is there any purpose to this besides bragging?
Posted on 11/3/14 at 12:45 am to GeeOH
You don't need to get defensive. The Internet is a place for opinions to get asserted anonymously with no accountability.
Look in Google Play store for FindMyiPhone that will allow you track an iPhone from your Android device, and set up FindMyiPhone on her phone. It is natively built into iOS. Given the nature of iOS, no third-party tracking app will be better than FindMyiPhone, and especially not as secure.
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Would the ones who actually know of solid cross platform apps, I would appreciate to hear.
Look in Google Play store for FindMyiPhone that will allow you track an iPhone from your Android device, and set up FindMyiPhone on her phone. It is natively built into iOS. Given the nature of iOS, no third-party tracking app will be better than FindMyiPhone, and especially not as secure.
This post was edited on 11/3/14 at 12:46 am
Posted on 11/3/14 at 5:13 am to CP3
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Sounds like you have a lot of trust issues
Has nothing to do with trust, it's more a decision my wife and I made of how we wish to educate/raise my daughter. I have no idea if we will follow through, but that is the current plan. Right now we don't want to be the parents that have to throw the toddler a tablet to be able to make her be quiet.
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I'll read about it or ask my wife (she has a master's in elementary ed., so she may have some familiarity with the concept), but I'm guessing it's just another progressive/alternative take (i.e., opinion) on what kids should be learning and when and how. Everyone else is wrong and they're right and the best and blah blah blah. Since becoming a parent I have read so much shite about parenting and education, and nearly all of it boils down to an attempt to sell (keyword sell) a neatly, uniquely packaged idea, some of them more cult-like than others. Industries related to parenting and education can be highly predatory.
i don't plan to send my daughter to them, it's just a low tech hands on school that has gotten popular with Google/Apple/Silicon Valley workers. I am sure it has its negatives just like any method. I was just using it as an example of how low tech is still very much a current method.
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You guys really think a kid goes sit in their room and turn into an iphone zombie? LOL..geez
I do, I have seen it in friends and my family's children. I am not saying your kid is that way or assuming you are a bad parent like some because I don't know your situation. However, this does happen and isn't that rare.
This post was edited on 11/3/14 at 6:30 am
Posted on 11/3/14 at 7:18 am to The Pirate King
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She is honor roll at the hardest Christian school in town, she's a state rated swimmer, and an even better volleyball player. She's in choir and piano at school and likes to run track in the springs
Is there any purpose to this besides bragging?
Yes, although I brag about them constantly, I put that to show many kids are outstanding thinkers and have many activities which require additional communications between many parties. We bust out arse for our kids. The whole point if that is to show the guys that she is worthy of my trust and deserving.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 10:17 am to Dam Guide
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Steve Jobs didn't let his kids even have an iPad, much less a phone. He may be a bad example, because he was pretty out there though.
considering he denied the paternity to first child for many years claiming he was sterile... i don't think I'm going to take parenting tips from Steve Jobs.
This post was edited on 11/3/14 at 10:20 am
Posted on 11/3/14 at 11:39 am to ashy larry
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Steve Jobs.
Which of his six nannies told him what the kids were up to? And anyone who thinks his kids didn't have an electronic device from his company by age 10 is a complete moron.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 12:03 pm to GeeOH
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considering he denied the paternity to first child for many years claiming he was sterile... i don't think I'm going to take parenting tips from Steve Jobs.
He made peace with her over that. That was pretty fricked up. Again, not really the point I was trying to convey with him, lots of tech people ban or limit tech with their kids, he is probably the most known to do it.
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Which of his six nannies told him what the kids were up to? And anyone who thinks his kids didn't have an electronic device from his company by age 10 is a complete moron.
Given how controlling he was of everything, it's very easy to believe.
This post was edited on 11/3/14 at 12:05 pm
Posted on 11/3/14 at 12:04 pm to GeeOH
He did keep tech away from his kids, but his parenting has no credibility so it doesn't matter.
There are some kids who will use computers, tablets, phones, consoles, etc. in moderation and still keep up with grades and a healthy social life, and many others who would stay locked in their room all day playing on the computer. Just have to know your kid and step in as necessary. I fell into the latter category of being an internet junkie since the day we got a 14.4kbps modem when I was 11. My parents kept the family computer in my room for lack of a better location and didn't know a lot about the internet and what could be done on it and what I was doing on it. There was also a complete lack of user-friendly parental controls for it like filters, remote access, and logs outside of web history. My grades started slipping, and taking away Internet was the ultimate punishment. Unfortunately, my parents didn't know that just disabling my AOL account wouldn't cut it, so I was able to sneak on as well. While I probably would not know as much as I know today had I not had free reign of the computer, someone like me would benefit from strict monitoring and limitations.
Nevertheless, if I ran my own private school, there would be, at minimum, a mandatory ancillary course on how to do research on the Internet, and it would start at elementary age. Public schools are still teaching the card catalog ffs.
There are some kids who will use computers, tablets, phones, consoles, etc. in moderation and still keep up with grades and a healthy social life, and many others who would stay locked in their room all day playing on the computer. Just have to know your kid and step in as necessary. I fell into the latter category of being an internet junkie since the day we got a 14.4kbps modem when I was 11. My parents kept the family computer in my room for lack of a better location and didn't know a lot about the internet and what could be done on it and what I was doing on it. There was also a complete lack of user-friendly parental controls for it like filters, remote access, and logs outside of web history. My grades started slipping, and taking away Internet was the ultimate punishment. Unfortunately, my parents didn't know that just disabling my AOL account wouldn't cut it, so I was able to sneak on as well. While I probably would not know as much as I know today had I not had free reign of the computer, someone like me would benefit from strict monitoring and limitations.
Nevertheless, if I ran my own private school, there would be, at minimum, a mandatory ancillary course on how to do research on the Internet, and it would start at elementary age. Public schools are still teaching the card catalog ffs.
This post was edited on 11/3/14 at 12:07 pm
Posted on 11/3/14 at 12:18 pm to ILikeLSUToo
Yeah, that's why I am more for situational appropriate on how to handle the limitations. I was a pretty addicted gamer, but I wouldn't whine or throw a fit if my parents took it away and was the same way with the internet. Was dialing up local BBS on a 9600 before we had an ISP. Took a lot of shite for calling one long distance. 
Seen kids that are fine without tech and handle themselves well and there are those on the opposite end that pitch a massive fit if you take it away for 2 seconds.
Plenty of ways to raise a responsible child, both low tech and high tech. If she is anything like her mom, I won't have to worry about too much.
Seen kids that are fine without tech and handle themselves well and there are those on the opposite end that pitch a massive fit if you take it away for 2 seconds.
Plenty of ways to raise a responsible child, both low tech and high tech. If she is anything like her mom, I won't have to worry about too much.
Posted on 11/3/14 at 12:29 pm to Dam Guide
My wife is an iPhone junky. Always reading failblog stuff, watching random videos, or playing games.
My 3-year-old would watch Youtube videos all day if I let her. I turn that time into a learning experience though. I've taught her some simple keyboard functions and how to use the trackpad on the laptop.
I have seen some weird parts of Youtube during that time. Apparently it's a lucrative business to publish videos of yourself unboxing toys. They have 10s of millions of views.
My 3-year-old would watch Youtube videos all day if I let her. I turn that time into a learning experience though. I've taught her some simple keyboard functions and how to use the trackpad on the laptop.
I have seen some weird parts of Youtube during that time. Apparently it's a lucrative business to publish videos of yourself unboxing toys. They have 10s of millions of views.
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