My foster parents DEMAND parental control on my phone… I want it removed! - r/BestofRedditorUpdates | Reddit Stories
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🗓️ 17 August 2025
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| 0:22.6 | My foster parents demand parental control on my phone. |
| 0:26.5 | I want it removed. |
| 0:28.3 | Of course you do. |
| 0:29.6 | You're child. |
| 0:31.0 | I, 15, male, have lived with my current foster parents since I was 9 years old, but I have |
| 0:34.9 | been in foster care since I was 6. |
| 0:37.0 | I will call my foster parents Henry and Aaron. By the way, this comes from OK Finish, 8622. And if you want to submit your own stories, go to the R-slash-OK Storytime, subreddit. I got a new phone as an early Christmas present from my biological dad. It is an iPhone 16 Pro Max, which is the phone that I wanted, so I'm very happy about it. |
| 0:56.3 | My previous phone was an iPhone 11, and it was bought by Henry and Aaron. On my old phone, |
| 1:01.8 | Henry and Aaron had set up loads of parental controls on it, so I couldn't download any apps |
| 1:06.2 | without them approving it. I couldn't turn off, share my location. I couldn't change my passcode. |
| 1:10.8 | It would lock everything except their contacts at 8 p.m. every night until after school. |
| 1:16.5 | That's crazy. And they had a time limit on YouTube. So I could only watch it for 30 minutes within the |
| 1:22.7 | time where my phone was unlocked anyway. Oh my gosh. That's excessive. I get it though because these things can melt people's brains, but also it's like, at some level it's like, all right, you're just going to make them resourceful enough to get around it. I could only go on websites that they approved of. Like there was a list that I could go on, and I couldn't go on anything that they didn't manually add to that |
| 1:44.9 | list. These all really annoyed me, but whenever I asked for them to be turned off, they told me that they bought the phone, so these were the rules. Now, I was given my new phone by my dad on Monday, and I haven't used it yet because they're telling me that I have to let them put the same restrictions on the new phone as they |
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