My Secret to Locking Up My Kid's Phone
Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and today I'm going to share my secret for how I lock up my kid's cell phone. Here's the scenario -- you've grounded your kid and taken away their phone. Now - what do you do with the phone? With some kids you might be able to keep it in plain sight with a stern warning not to touch it. That definitely did not work with my son. It's possible that he started out with good intentions, but it was just too tempting to have a quick look if he happened to see a notification flash up on the lock screen. And then the phone was back in his hands again. Cue a giant mother-son screaming match. So, I took to hiding the phone. And it became this somewhat elaborate game of hide and seek. There were 2 problems to this: 1) it took creativity and mental energy to come up with new hiding spots and 2) sometimes my hiding spot was so good that I would actually forget where I put the phone...