My kids ALL had to role play calling people and do it politely, and role play answering politely before they were allowed to TOUCH the phone, much less pick it up. Around here it was thought to be bizarrely strict and domineering to make your four year old practice being polite on the phone (and not telling people at random that mommy wasn't home - cause Wiz did even if I was, esp if it was someone about something he did, and yes, I got calls about him even at age 4!) and not let them jsut use it with no training in manners. Of course the same people at other times commented on how polite the kdis were on the phone and how they wished their kdis were. Mine know that it takes ONE call where I find they did not identify themselves and they lose phone privileges. thank you's friends have FINALLY learned that they will NOT speak to him unless they are polite, not demanding anything, and tell me who they are. even Jess doesn't let them slip because she knows that if I find out that she let it slip much then she loses HER privileges also.
I still think you need a whistle. Although I have been told many times I have a perfect voice for phone sex - both from people calling my home and from every telemarketing or telephone polling job I ever had (I had LOTS - easy easy money). So going with that, and then after they have made a couple of comments I have asked if they know they are talking to so and so's mom, that I am fat, have long grey hair, still have zits, even have boobs that sag to my knees. (I said htat even before it was true, lol - back in college when it was gfgbro's perv firends who called) and they start gagging audibly. they NEVER do that to our number again and I ALWAYS can identify them in person because they blush and stammer and cannot wait to get away no matter what I do. Wiz thought it was a total RIOT and set up a few kids who had been bullying him. I didn't mind but their parents did. THOSE calls were even funnier. I asked why they were angry at ME, it was their child who called and asked what I was wearing and if I woudl do this or that obscene thing to them. I NEVER started it, their heavey breathing did, followed by their comments because they thought I was "sexy". Although one mom did call and thank me. Her son had run up hundreds of dollars in phone sex and after my call he never called a single one. esp after Wiz introduced me to him one day up at the school, lol. His parents were upset by the calls and bills, but worried he found something worse like actually doing those things until he fessed up to what happened when he called here. Got to say it was a strange call, them thanking me for talking soft porn to their son and then shocking him with a description of an old fat lady esp in the clothes he asked if I was wearing (the idea of a thong on a fat lady is NOT one that a teen wants, lol!).
I remember my dad telling a caller that their hit was arranged, the deposit had been received and that the next call would be to tell them the hit had been executed. Truly terrified one of gfgbro's friends who thought he had somehow arranged a hit on his girlfriend.
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