Mom shares story of clever 7-year-old daughter finding a loophole to her rules, sparks hilarious discussion between parents: '[My kid] is an Elementary School Lawyer!'

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
May 30, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Well, well, well, if it isn't the children who have never lived without technology starting to outsmart us. As a parent, you feel very split: You feel proud that your kid is so clever and such a fast learner, but you also are starting to get undermined because now your rules against tech are getting "hacked." That's right, kids are learning how to bypass parental controls, unlock passcodes, and more. And they figure it out within minutes. It's none of that "we're in" hacker stuff that us early oughts kids remember from the movies. Nope. It's just a 7-year-old and a knowledge of how to navigate apps or log into someone else's wifi. Pretty creative stuff, but it's just another new level parents have to figure out how to handle. 

 

On one side, you want to congratulate your kid for their intelligence and creativity, heck, you even want to reinforce their rebelliousness! But, on the other side, you want them to listen to you and obey your rules because you simply make them to keep them safe… Duh. But, if you remember as a kid, you don't like to have to follow your parents rules and they are just their to ruin your life! LOL Oh, how the tables of turned… 

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  • One mom recently shared the story of her daughter, when she was only 7 or 8 years old. She was able to find a loophole in her tablet usage rule and it made her mom proud. Though she had to put new rules to thoroughly reinforce them, she was still happy her child was so clever. Now she's all grown up and going to school to be a lawyer! Other parents are chiming in with their clever kid's story too! 

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  • "She technically followed the rules."

    When my daughter was 7- 8, she had a tablet. I had screen controls activated so she wouldn't use it too much. All apps other than calling or texting would shut down. She figured out that if she texted herself YouTube videos, that she could watch them in the texting app after the screen controls shut them
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  • down. I figured it out when she came to me complaining that her tablet was out of memory. I couldn't understand why until I saw that she had over 30 gigs of memory used in texting. I couldn't really be mad since she was technically following g the rules.
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  • Silky Tomato Soup Little stinker, lol My son is great at finding technicalities, too. jennievh nod I call my son Señor Loophole.
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  • trphilli Mine is Elementary School Lawyer.
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  • botgeek1 You have to stay sharp to keep up with the kids with tech. GotGRR Limited rights plus unlimited free time results in remarkable creativity in prisoners of all ages.
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  • jollebb My sister's kids are, too. I remember sending them both to bed (were early teens, I think) around midnight, and they had been on their phones all evening. As they headed upstairs, I said something along the lines of "I better not find you two on your phones still when I come up in 2 hrs." The older one, as she ran up the stairs, said, "You didn't say anything about our tablets!"
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  • Spiritual-Ad-9106 My boys figured this out pretty quick. They would message themselves url's in various different apps. These would open an in app browser that they could redirect to google and the world opened up for them.
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  • jose4440 My son figured out that if you change time zones you can bypass the screen time downtime lock.
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  • OkStrength5245 one day, if found my pc on, outlook open, ready to send a messages with the god attachment. my son was 3. end START bouton zipped in
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  • RandomBoomer One of my co-workers found his son trying to place an order on Amazon around that age. He'd managed to find a picture of the toy he wanted, followed it to Amazon, had it loaded in a cart, but couldn't get past the payment screen at checkout.
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  • XaMLOK I had a similar proud papa moment when my son was 4. Locked down youtube and all that jazz. Walk into the room and see him watching videos. He was more than happy to explain what he did. The one unrestricted app on his ipad was a reading app that would read children's books to you. Sounds great right? BUT it had a help section that used an inapp browser window to open to
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  • their youtube channel. Not limited to their channel, but all of yourtube. The search bar was right there, and he was able to move around and watch anything he wanted. I was proud of he discovered. Even let him have his fill for an hour before blocking youtube for his ipad at the network level. Smart kid sure, but not smarter than me.... yet....
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  • Sasusc My daughter did something similar. She wasn't allowed on YouTube but she figured out she could get to YouTube by going onto roblox and finding a game that had a video link. Took me a while to realize how she was doing it as I know her tablet wouldnt let her access the YouTube app. She was about 5 or 6.
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  • allthegodsaregone My kid figured out that casting Netflix and turning off the screen doesn't use time
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  • Aggravating_Shame427 Memories of my now-adult niece who figured out her Dad's Amazon Kindle password TWICE.
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  • esmerelofchaos My daughter was allowed notes app after bedtime because she was writing down story ideas. She figured out she could share them with her friends and they'd roleplay all night long across the notes app.
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  • Evil CodeQueen My daughter was pre-school when she figured out how to use the neighbor's WiFi when ours shut her off at bedtime.
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