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Ingenious mom comes up with an app that locks her kids’ phones until they call her back

19
Aug
2014

Sharon Standifird is a mom from Houston, Texas, who had a problem: Her children would not return her calls and texts on time. Frustrated and worried, she decided to take the matter into her own hands and create an app to specifically deal with teenagers who do not answer calls from parents on their smartphones, even though she didn’t actually know how to code. “We need to develop an app that just shuts their phone completely down and they can’t even use it,” she told ABC13. “I got on the internet and I literally just started researching how to develop an app.” Called Ignore No More, the app is available only on Android at this time and costs $1.99 per phone, although an iOS

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