She Forced Her Teen Daughter To Remove The “Do Not Disturb” Feature On Her Phone Because Her Daughter Kept Going MIA
This woman’s 16-year-old daughter always has her phone on “do not disturb.” And in the beginning, this really was not an issue because her daughter would always answer her calls and texts while out at practice.
Over the past few weeks, though, her daughter stopped answering her texts and calls out of the blue. Then, when she asked why this was happening, her daughter just claimed she was not getting them.
“I am not stupid,” she said. “Her phone is on do not disturb, and none of my texts and calls are going through.”
Whenever this happened, she would have to ask her older children to reach out and see if they could reach her daughter. But, no matter if they called, texted, or FaceTimed, her 16-year-old just would not answer.
And after this happened again this past weekend, she was furious.
It all began when her daughter had to go to an event at school. But then, once she arrived to pick up her daughter, her daughter reportedly went MIA. The do not disturb feature was on again, and none of her messages were going through.
So, she started to get pretty frustrated. And by the time her daughter finally got into the car, she told her daughter that she needed to start answering. After all, there was no reason for her daughter to be ignoring her if she was supposed to pick her daughter up.
At that point, though, the teen tried to just give her the “Oh, I didn’t see it” excuse again. But that was her final straw, and she ended up just screaming at her daughter.
“None of us are able to easily get ahold of you! Something that normally takes two minutes takes 20 or more since we can’t seem to get you to answer the phone!” she yelled.
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“Your father and I have been worried sick whenever you don’t answer the phone!”
Afterward, she also put her foot down and gave her daughter two options: either she turned off do not disturb, or her daughter’s phone would get taken away for a full week.
Her daughter just wound up rolling her eyes, though, and claiming it would be unfair if she wasn’t allowed to use the do not disturb feature. Still, she held her ground and told the teen that she needed to start answering the phone or at least call people back right away. She also reiterated how if her daughter did not listen, then the phone would be taken away.
At that point, her daughter started begging her not to take the phone away. But, the teen kept refusing to turn off the do not disturb.
So, by the time they got home, she gave her daughter the same ultimatum. And after they got into a back-and-forth argument, the teen finally removed the do not disturb feature right in front of her before starting to cry and running to her room.
Now, she feels like what she did was necessary because she simply could not get ahold of her daughter. And her teen being completely unreachable was just unacceptable in her eyes.
Nonetheless, she still feels like what she did might have been too harsh, even though she was at her wit’s end. So now, she has been wondering whether forcing her daughter to get rid of the “do not disturb” feature makes her a jerk or not.
Do you think it’s reasonable that she wants to be able to contact her daughter? If her teen isn’t using the phone for its intended function, does her daughter need the phone? Was she too harsh or not? Would you have done the same?
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