How to Help Your Teenager Remember Passwords and Combinations
If you’ve spent any time with teenagers, you know they tend to be forgetful. It’s not that they, of course, don’t try, but for some reason they don’t forget to change the roll of toilet paper or empty the dishes from the dishwasher, eludes their brains. Heavy homework and busy extracurricular schedules make it difficult for teens, like adults, to remember the little details that make their life easier.
Take passwords and locker combinations. Teens often use different passwords to log on to the Internet at home, school, and other places where they use their electronics. Their locker combinations change from year to year, and as teens are old enough to walk home after school on their own, many kids will need to memorize garage and safe access codes to get into their homes.
I don’t know about you, but I can hardly remember my email password from day to day. So when my kids were in high school, we came up with this easy way to help them remember school combinations and passwords.
Our solution
To begin with, I bought a bag of inexpensive rubber bracelets at a discount store. (You can also order them in bulk online at various websites, such as this one .) Then, with a permanent marker, I wrote the code for my daughter’s locker on the inside of the bracelet.
On the first day, she wore a bracelet at school, and all fears that she would forget the combination instantly disappeared. And since the bracelet was securely on her wrist, she was not worried about losing the handwritten copy in her backpack during the school day.
Endless possibilities
The beauty of this hack is not only that it is so simple, but also useful in a number of situations.
If your child can’t remember a tricky school internet password, writing letters and numbers on the inside of a plastic wristband is a discreet way for your child not to panic when they try to log in to find their homework.
You can even use this trick to remind your teen of an important activity after school, such as a specific time to pick him up for a meeting, or to remind him to bring a specific book home from school.
After they find out the password or combination, they can simply throw the bracelet in the trash.