What do you do when your child is ignoring your phone call, because they are busy with an online game? A US mom has gone viral after sharing pictures of how she had to track down her 11-year-old daughter on the online multiplayer gaming platform, Roblox, when the tween ignored her phone calls.

Chariel Watson was calling her daughter, Miracle, to remind her to take lasagna and garlic bread out of the freezer so it could thaw for dinner. But, Miracle didn't answer the call and kept playing, because pausing would mean losing progress in the game.

Not ready to give up, the mum decided to log into the game. She found her daughter and gave her the instructions in the chatbox, while playing the game with her.

Watson posted screenshots of the game on Facebook, to share the hilarious measures she had to take to contact her daughter. In the caption, along with a crying-face emoji, the mum wrote: "When my baby don’t answer the phone, I pull up on ROBLOX."

Facebook user Terre Labaire posted: "I love this, but at 11, they better be answering when I call or I’ll own that Roblox for a while. I put remotes, chargers, game things in the freezer. TVs in my trunk, I’ll take that phone maybe not for long, but lone enough to un-freeze their brain that don’t work yet. It worked pretty good. What if there were an emergency?"

After her story went viral, Watson and her daughter were invited to The Jennifer Hudson Show, a US television chat show. In the episode that was aired on February 7, Watson was heard explaining to Hudson: “She was on the game and I was trying to get ahold of her, and she wasn’t picking up the phone.”

Watson said she eventually jumped on the game and found her daughter's avatar. “As I joined her game, she was in a white car… I jumped in the car with her. I was like, ‘I know you see me calling you!’”

“I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, I know I’m in trouble!’” recalled Miracle.

The mother-daughter duo often play Roblox together, so Watson didn’t think twice about logging in.