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Kids Ignoring Your Phone Calls & Texts? There is App to fix that

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It’s called Ignore No More and it is the brainchild of a mum who had been ignored way too many times by her kids. And to boot, she is a Gulf War veteran.

With no knowledge of how to do programming, Sharon Standifird, a mum from Texas, set about learning the process of creating an app and honed her skills after her teenage son had ignored her own text calls and phone message one too many times.

Some might say, that the way to get your kids to not ignore you is by not giving them a phone. But that person probably never had a teenager kid, right?

If your kids have been ignoring your phone calls and text messages, then you need to get this app: Ignore No More.

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Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

  • Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
  • NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
  • Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
  • The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]