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Going Hi-Tech To Communicate With Your Kids

August 2, 2007 by Guest Contributor

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Here’s a great new service invented by a husband and wife team. They contacted us and asked us to help spread the word about their idea to help build hi-tech communication between parents and kids. The following is a sponsored post.

Listen to what Stephen has to say about their service Text My Teen:

Text My TeenMy Wife and I wanted to create a tool to break down the enormous gap between Parents, Kids and text messaging.

We would always see our teenage daughter’s fingers flying over her cell phone texting. It seemed like she spent more time Texting than talking — as most kids do nowadays.

So we created a little program called TextMyTeen that you install on a Windows PC that works much like Instant Messaging i.e. MSN, Yahoo messenger. The difference is that when you enter your teen’s cell phone number, type a message and hit send, it is sent to their cell phone as a text message in which they can simply reply to.

Mainly by word of mouth we have gotten some great feedback from the idea and currently have quite a few (mostly MOM) users.

There are absolutely no pop-ups or advertising. Parents can try it for free — You get 50 free messages when you sign up.

We’d love to hear your feedback on the idea. Please take a look at our site www.textmyteen.com and then send me your thoughts at [email protected].

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  1. Michelle says

    August 10, 2007 at 6:01 pm

    I used to use AIM to do this all the time. I entered my husband’s cell phone number into my buddy list, and then I could send him messages and he could respond. The only reason we stopped is that his new blackberry has Google messenger installed on it, so we use that instead.

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  2. Ellen says

    August 4, 2007 at 8:11 pm

    My son is only 7 but this sounds like a great idea for parents with teens.

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  3. melody is slurping life says

    August 3, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    Oh, wonderful idea. With my 12-1/2 thinking he can roam the world (if only a large neighborhood) I’m really interested in this. He doesn’t like to “answer” the cell phone I send him out with, but loves texting…?????

    Thanks.

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  4. Jodi says

    August 3, 2007 at 1:34 pm

    What a great idea!

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  5. GreenKathy says

    August 3, 2007 at 9:01 am

    I signed up on the site and sent my first text to my 13 yo. She’s like “Mom when did you start texting”. This will be handy.

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  6. Nell says

    August 3, 2007 at 1:13 am

    I actually don’t like this idea. I think we’re too high tech and hands off already…how about sitting down and having a conversation? It may appeal to some, but I personally wouldn’t be interested.

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  7. Christine says

    August 2, 2007 at 9:17 pm

    Great idea! I will be signing up!

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  8. Biddy says

    August 2, 2007 at 9:07 pm

    absolutely brilliant!

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  9. Marie says

    August 2, 2007 at 8:58 pm

    Kilikina,
    You are right indeed every carrier offers this feature to send a ONE-WAY text message via some type of email address. But the recipient cannot reply and truthfully it’s not natural 2-way conversation . That was one of our motivators for this idea which is true 2-way texting from a PC.
    My husband and I decided to give away 50 free messages so parents can try it out.

    Thanks so much for your feedback.

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  10. Kilikina says

    August 2, 2007 at 8:12 pm

    Before anyone spends money on this (although it’s the fair price of $5) I must say that cell phones already have a way to do that without paying. Just your regular text message fee (usually 10 cents per mssg unless you get a package, which you would have to have on TOP of this Text My Teen anyway).

    I don’t know if you realize that your cell phone has an email address. For instance I have the AT&T (old cingular) and I can email my or my husbands phone just like a text message at my cell phone number. I don’t have it in front of me but it is something such as [email protected]

    So long to short here- you can call your cell phone provider and find out the “email address” to your phone and a parent can send an email/text to anyone’s phone for free, without paying $5 month for Text my Teen. And again you still have the regular text message fees of your cell phone provider.

    Just something to think about.

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  11. oh amanda says

    August 2, 2007 at 6:53 pm

    What a great idea. My sil is 18 and she texts the majority of her life! I should do that to keep in touch with her!

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  12. Rebecca says

    August 2, 2007 at 6:19 pm

    That is such a fabulous idea that I figured it must already be available! Very timely indeed.

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