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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 490553" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>She is a minor living in YOUR home on YOUR dime. She can have ALL the privacy she wants - WHEN she moves out AND pays ALL her own bills 100%. While she is a minor and while she is living in your home, your rules are the ONLY ones that matter other than the laws. </p><p></p><p>No way does she need more privacy. She needs more good behavior to prove that she should have a beginning of a chance to have more privacy. NOT a phone that you can't see/control.</p><p></p><p>in my opinion the main reason she wants privacy is to do something she shouldn't do and she knows you won't be okay with. Even if she doesn't start off doing that, it will happen. So start the way you mean to continue. You can always loosen the rules later, but it is a LOT harder to tighten them if you start loose.</p><p></p><p>What has she done to EARN the right to have a cell phone except to earn the $$ for it? How long has it been since she last did something gfgish or inappropriate when she had a chance to do that type of thing?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 490553, member: 1233"] She is a minor living in YOUR home on YOUR dime. She can have ALL the privacy she wants - WHEN she moves out AND pays ALL her own bills 100%. While she is a minor and while she is living in your home, your rules are the ONLY ones that matter other than the laws. No way does she need more privacy. She needs more good behavior to prove that she should have a beginning of a chance to have more privacy. NOT a phone that you can't see/control. in my opinion the main reason she wants privacy is to do something she shouldn't do and she knows you won't be okay with. Even if she doesn't start off doing that, it will happen. So start the way you mean to continue. You can always loosen the rules later, but it is a LOT harder to tighten them if you start loose. What has she done to EARN the right to have a cell phone except to earn the $$ for it? How long has it been since she last did something gfgish or inappropriate when she had a chance to do that type of thing? [/QUOTE]
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