I got difficult child the LG flip for TracFone. It has all those bells and whistles and no contract, ever. The phone costs like $20 at WalMart. You can add as little as $20 for minutes every three months and still be able to track your kid. Well, maybe you can't track them, but in an emergency 911 can. It has E911 locator in it, so they can track it from the towers it's using. You can use the system security to set the phone so it can only call numbers you have programmed in. This was great since difficult child would loan his phone to anyone and at .50 a minute you don't do that. When anyone asks to use his phone he can say sure you can use it, but only if you're calling my mom, my unc, my grandpa etc.. because Mom locked my phone lol. That way he can be the good guy and I can be the bleep. difficult child has to earn his minutes even when I have it locked. He likes to waste minutes, calling me from his room or outside instead of getting off his butt, or calling me from school when he can get away from the teachers lol. One of these days he's going to wind up losing his phone at school for using it in the wrong area or wrong time. So before you go and sign up for a contract check out TracFone.