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Hi, everyone!  It's Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel. And today I'm going to show you how to turn an iPhone into a dumb phone. I'm assuming that most of you watching this are interested in this for your kid's phone and not your own. But perhaps that's a bad assumption.  A friend of mine came up with this solution when her daughter was making bad choices with her phone. She searched high and low for an actual old school phone and was shocked to find that cellphone providers didn't have this as an option. So rather than go through the hassle of buying a used phone on eBay and convincing her cell provider to activate it, she decided to work with the equipment she already had available.  Okay -- doing this demo is a bit risky for me. But I've backed up all of my data, so here goes. Step 1 - Delete all of the apps possible You guys already know how to do this. You are going to delete all of the apps you can with the press and wiggle methodo...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and this is the second and last video about my experience using the KoalaSafe router to limit screentime and filter content for my kids. If you haven't already, you should watch Part I where I discuss how Koalasafe works and why it's fantastic. In this second part, I'm going to talk about some of the drawbacks and enumerate some of the infinitely creative workarounds my son has employed.  I've been using KoalaSafe for just about a year now to help enforce rules that were theoretically already in place.  Obviously, the rules weren't being enforced well since after installing it, I practically had a family insurrection on my hands.  My kids were furious.  And the level of conflict and stress in the house rose exponentially for 2-3 weeks. My husband was traveling a ton at that time or else he might have just chosen to sleep at the office. It was brutal.  Just to recap from Part I, I keep ...