How can I create and enforce parental limits on iMessages?

Carriers such as ATT provide parental controls on outgoing calls, texts, and internet use.
These can be set for specific times of day, and are working well for me.
I would like to prevent my step-daughter from texting during school hours. I can set
limits on SMS and MMS through the carrier. However, the recent advent of iMessage
allows her to get around the restriction with anyone that has iOS5.0.
I can disable the iMessage feature on her iphone using "settings" but there appears to be no way under
the iPhone's parental controls to prevent her from changing "settings". Besides which, disabling the feature entirely seems
needlessly crude.
My options at this point seem to be taking the phone away, or replacing it with a dumb phone.
Rather than offering addional impetus to buy Apple, the iMessage feature is driving me away,
Thanks in advance

I was searching for an answer to this problem as well. I use ATT SmartLimits to restrict my kids' text messages by time of day, etc. Also, I want to know WHO they are texting, so I usually review the phone numbers of all text messages on our bill. Since iMessage bypasses the ATT text message system, SmartLimits do not apply, and I don't see the detail of the texts on our bill. So the only real answer here is to disable iMessage completely. I have been very frustrated trying to find a solution to this problem over the past few days and was about to resort to downgrading to an older iOS version or even switching to different phones, when I stumbled just across a perfect solution.
Though you can't restrict iMessage, you CAN restrict FaceTime. And it appears that FaceTime and iMessage you the same communication mechansim, because when you restrict FaceTime, iMessages suddenly disappear! Voila - problem solved. Just enable restrictions on your childrens' phone, then disable FaceTime. All future messages will be sent and received as text messages, which can be controlled with SmartLimits and monitored on their bill.
Of course the downside is iMessages are free and text messages are not, but I'll gladly pay $30/month for the unlimited family text plan to get the addded controls.
Hope this helps . . .

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