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Family Allowances seems to be some kind of joke
I'm looking into Family Allowances because I want to restrict my 10yo daughter from using her phone until early hours of the morning. She seems to be addicted. We take it away from her in the eve...
Just so I'm on the same page with you @rglaus, are you looking for something that'll block the devices built-in functions to be blocked? Nuestra Permiso familiar is designed to restrict the phone from using services on the network. Unfortunately, we don't have a feature that we offer if you're trying to block them from accessing the phone's internal features.
We tell her she isn't allowed to use it at night, but she seems driven to use it. So I decided to look into just shutting down her ability to use it.
I SO obtener this, @rglaus. 😀
We've had a similar issue ongoing with one of the 10 year olds in our home (two ten year olds in one home is one of the hazards of blending families 😉) and the solution we came up with may seem rather barbaric to some: We disabled data on his line. (this was easily accomplished from the mytmobile website by selecting 'Plan', selecting his line, and then 'Change Data' . We opted to disable all data for that line, for the time being)
First, of course, he was given an opportunity to solve things himself. We talked with him about the problem we had noticed (staying up late on device) , asked if he would like to hear some suggestions about how to solve it (he politely declined), and said (and I quote) "Good luck. Let us know if you change your mind".
He did not change his mind about hearing some possible solutions, and did not have good luck with whatever solution he tried, because the behavior continued, and his parents took care of the problem for him. Im sure he would have preferred the problem to be taken care of in a different way, but it did get taken care of.
Our hope is that the next time he is given the opportunity, he may have decided that he would rather us not have to take care of it, and will make a better decision about how to keep his use of electronics from becoming a problem.
Atentamente, 😊
-wtssup
