How do you monitor your childs cellphone?? (younger, kid, call)

[neonwattagelimit]

I suppose this is somewhat tangential, but cell phones were just getting popular when I was a teenager...am I the only person who actively did NOT want a cell phone in high school? The issue never came up, but if it did I'm sure I would've tried to come up with a way to talk my mom out of it.

[mrstewart]

Originally Posted by sierraAZ

What would you do in the pre-cell phones era? There used to be life back then, too... even with the lifestyle here...

I would have had a bleeding ulcer

[MonaLisaVito]

Originally Posted by funymann

What rules do you enforce on them such as texting and what is appropriate.

Who they can call and when?

What do you do as a parent in line with rule of a childs cellphone?

Don't get them one

[mrstewart]

We have never had a problem with the boys abusing them and I have only taken it away from one of them once. The infraction was getting a C on his report card but never an abuse of the phone. So far, we have had no issues with them cutting into family time, homework, etc...but I have heard horror stories of kids on them texting and calling at crazy hours...

[artsyguy]

Why do you get mad about a C?

Originally Posted by mrstewart

We have never had a problem with the boys abusing them and I have only taken it away from one of them once. The infraction was getting a C on his report card but never an abuse of the phone. So far, we have had no issues with them cutting into family time, homework, etc...but I have heard horror stories of kids on them texting and calling at crazy hours...

[mrstewart]

Originally Posted by artsyguy

Why do you get mad about a C?

Because he can do better...and guess what...he brought it up to an A!! See????

[artsyguy]

What was the subject??

Originally Posted by mrstewart

Because he can do better...and guess what...he brought it up to an A!! See????

[mrstewart]

Originally Posted by artsyguy

What was the subject??

Physics.

[artsyguy]

Physics?? That class is hard isn't it?? I didn't even take physics in High School. I took chemistry in HS and it was harder than most of my college classes.

Originally Posted by mrstewart

Physics.

[sierraAZ]

Originally Posted by mrstewart

I would have had a bleeding ulcer

Ha-ha, perhaps you would've had fewer kiddos; cells just made ya more productive. I just came up with the topic for a new "study" - How do cell phones contribute to the population increase!