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Hardly. My kids did, and do have cell phones. The cell phones don't cause problems. There is nothing they could text that couldn't be said on the phone or via email, as I never had reason to listen in or read their personal correspondence.
Cell phones have never been allowed at our dinner table, so the chances of them texting to make hookup plans while the rest of the family dines are nil.
I know their girlfriends, and the parents of those girlfriends. I don't leave a lot to chance, but I would not be so naive as to think eliminating texting would eliminate risk.
You know i can't even remember any of my friends asking me to cover for them over stuff. They went on dates, had bf's over but i don't remember any of them going over friends houses to have guys over.
Yes, and again, this is because people are so inherently evil that they must be monitored and redirected or they will turn into mass murderers. They have no intrinsic goodness or judgment.
And then we will wind up with an entire generation of adults who never develop judgement because they were not allowed. Their parents think that age 18 they will magically develop good judgement because they are 18 and thus "old enough". Ugh. Kids need to practice making decisions and having judgement in order to learn how to do it.
I firmly believe that we were better off back when there were no cell phones and no internet.
Billy had to call "my daughter" on the house line - and it was understood that anything said could be heard by me (dad).
Now, parents hand their kids pipelines to the world, exposing them to everyone, 24/7. etc.
It's NOT a good thing. Even for your 17 year old boy or girl.......giving them a line to the outside world while they are in their bedroom at 2 am is NOT a good thing.
yes, they are going to be able to text regardless, but they will know that I will be able to see what they are doing. I simply will not allow them to own a device that doesn't report back to me. There are very advanced programs out there that will send you a daily report (every min of every day if you want to) of ANYTHING that goes on when your kid is using the computer and cell phone. I will be forward with my kids in telling them that I'm watching and when they are 18 and away at college then I will not monitor anymore. Hopefully by that time I will have helped them to see the SLIMEballs out there.
You know most teens text each other about completely benign things. Like where they are meeting for the movie, what they should wear, that they will be running late because their mother "found" chores for them to do, etc.....
You know most teens text each other about completely benign things. Like where they are meeting for the movie, what they should wear, that they will be running late because their mother "found" chores for them to do, etc.....
Maybe in your tiny experience with your kids, but I can tell you for a fact that when you look at it from a larger more global scale (from the viewpoint I have)... what you said is not true.
Maybe in your tiny experience with your kids, but I can tell you for a fact that when you look at it from a larger more global scale (from the viewpoint I have)... what you said is not true.
Care to share what your global scale viewpoint is?
You hanging at the Spanish Steps looking over kids' shoulders to see what they text?
Maybe in your tiny experience with your kids, but I can tell you for a fact that when you look at it from a larger more global scale (from the viewpoint I have)... what you said is not true.
From the larger scale it rarely happens as most kids can tell their parents most things. Does that means kids never misbehave or there are not some kids that lie all the time? No of course not however that is the exception not the rule. If you think kids sit around planning elaborate schemes with their gf's to get bf's over then you don't know many teen girls. And what exactly 'global' viewpoint do you possess that us peons down here seem to lack?
So we are supposed to believe that you are aware of some global conspiracy but you can't tell us how you know? I'm sorry but I will have to go with the many teens I know in real life and the absolutely boring text messages most of them send about where they are going, who is going, what to wear, have you studied for the test, etc......
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