Text reminders to teenagers
by Kirsty on Jun.17, 2005, under Uncategorized
I was having lunch with my wife yesterday (yes, I must be one of those new, sensitive husband types – all enquiries by email in completely confidence…) and we were discussing how to get our ´just´ teenager to remember important things; well anything actually.Well here´s two suggestions:
Automated SMS Reminders
We are setting her up with an eppointments.co.uk account that allows her (and us) to set text reminders using a web-based programme from our PC. Given that most teenagers spend more time with a phone glued to their ear than actually talking to their parents, this might just do the trick. We´ll set up simple reminders like "Feed the Guinea Pigs, Cruella" or "It´s Friday evening, so don´t even try to kid us you´ve got no art homework".
Her own blog
We discussed the idea of blogging with her and she is really keen to ramble on about all sorts of rubbish. It´s not so much a change as a different medium. But… how about if we set up her blog so that it has key reminders on in bold, red for instance? Just an idea.
