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What Would You Do? Cell Phone Dilemna
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 144956" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>It's a good point about there being a phone in the house. I'm not sure how phone calls get billed for you in the US, but for us, the house phone is cheaper, we get unlimited time on local calls, one low flag fall charge per call. The kids (older ones) have their mobile phones handy but only use them at home for sending and receiving text messages. Frankly our mobile reception is poor and voice calls aren't always reliably connected with mobiles. We generally can only take a mobile voice call while standing in the middle of the driveway, or worse yet - the street.</p><p></p><p>I like the turn-in time idea. I wouldn't punish for going over the minutes time (unless there is a penalty fee). Going over the limit brings its own consequences. But talking past curfew - I'd definitely withdraw phone access time in response, as suggested.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 checks his own phone credit, to let us know if it's about to expire or run out (we have time limit on phone credits - I'm not impressed with our phone companies). He has the phone with him when he goes out, but once he's home it goes back on the charger and isn't used. He's responsible because he's so obsessive.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 144956, member: 1991"] It's a good point about there being a phone in the house. I'm not sure how phone calls get billed for you in the US, but for us, the house phone is cheaper, we get unlimited time on local calls, one low flag fall charge per call. The kids (older ones) have their mobile phones handy but only use them at home for sending and receiving text messages. Frankly our mobile reception is poor and voice calls aren't always reliably connected with mobiles. We generally can only take a mobile voice call while standing in the middle of the driveway, or worse yet - the street. I like the turn-in time idea. I wouldn't punish for going over the minutes time (unless there is a penalty fee). Going over the limit brings its own consequences. But talking past curfew - I'd definitely withdraw phone access time in response, as suggested. difficult child 3 checks his own phone credit, to let us know if it's about to expire or run out (we have time limit on phone credits - I'm not impressed with our phone companies). He has the phone with him when he goes out, but once he's home it goes back on the charger and isn't used. He's responsible because he's so obsessive. Marg [/QUOTE]
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