Parental notification of prohibited activities
Methods, systems, and products notify parents of child activities. A child's device stores rules that prohibit certain activities. When the child's device attempts a prohibited activity, a message is sent to a notification address associated with the parent. The message, for example, may be sent to the parent's cell phone. The instant message describes the prohibited activity.
1. A method, comprising:
monitoring activities performed by a home terminating telephone device;
storing rules in memory of the home terminating telephone device that prohibit the activities of the home terminating telephone device;
retrieving a rule from the memory that is associated with a user of the home terminating telephone device;
determining a prohibited activity is attempted by the user of the home terminating telephone device;
retrieving a notification address of a parent associated with the user;
sending an instant message from the home terminating telephone device to the notification address to notify the parent of the prohibited activity and an identification of a name of the user that is attempting the prohibited activity; and
prompting the parent at the notification address to authorize the prohibited activity.
2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising determining an incoming call is received at the home terminating telephone device.
3. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising sending the instant message to notify the notification address of the incoming call.
4. The method according to claim 3 , further comprising including a calling number in the instant message.
5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising retrieving from the memory a log of activities of the home terminating telephone device.
6. The method according to claim 5 , further comprising sending the log of activities to the notification address.
7. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising determining an outgoing call is sent from the home terminating telephone device.
8. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising including a called number in the instant message to the notification address.
9. A system, comprising:
a processor; and
memory storing instructions that when executed cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
monitoring activities performed by a home terminating telephone device;
storing rules that prohibit the activities of the device;
retrieving a rule that is associated with a user of the home terminating telephone device;
determining a prohibited activity is attempted by the user of the home terminating telephone device;
retrieving a notification address of a parent associated with the user;
sending an instant message from the home terminating telephone device to the notification address to notify the parent of the prohibited activity and an identification of a name of the user that is attempting the prohibited activity; and
receiving authorization of the prohibited activity.
10. The system according to claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise determining an incoming call is received at the home terminating telephone device.
11. The system according to claim 10 , wherein the operations further comprise sending the instant message to notify the notification address of the incoming call.
12. The system according to claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise including a calling number in the instant message.
13. The system according to claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise retrieving from the memory a log of activities of the home terminating telephone device.
14. The system according to claim 13 , wherein the operations further comprise sending the log of activities to the notification address.
15. The system according to claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise determining an outgoing call is sent from the home terminating telephone device.
16. The system according to claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise including a called number in the instant message to the notification address.
17. A memory storing instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
monitoring activities performed by a home terminating telephone device;
storing rules that prohibit the activities of the home terminating telephone device;
retrieving a rule that is associated with a user of the home terminating telephone device;
determining a prohibited activity is attempted by the user of the home terminating telephone device;
retrieving a notification address of a parent associated with the user;
sending an instant message from the home terminating telephone device to the notification address to notify the parent of the prohibited activity and an identification of a name of the user that is attempting the prohibited activity; and
receiving authorization of the prohibited activity.
18. The memory according to claim 17 , wherein the operations further comprise determining an incoming call is received at the home terminating telephone device.
19. The memory according to claim 18 , wherein the operations further comprise sending the instant message to notify the notification address of the incoming call.
20. The memory according to claim 18 , wherein the operations further comprise including a calling number in the instant message.