Kids and Cell Phones……
When I left my house when I was young, my parents would tell me to check in every hour. I had no cell phone, no pager, no way to check in other than use the house phone at a friends house or run to the local payphone and pop in a dime. Then pagers came along, then cell phones, and nowadays there are camera phones, text messaging, and internet, just about everything is accessible to kids on their phones.
I believe giving a child a fully loaded cell phone is the worst decision a parent can make. A plain cell phone with limited minutes or a pre-paid cell phone “just for emergencies” is fine but kids don’t use the phones of today “just for emergencies”. Parents buy their kids phones that enable the kids to access everything the parents may ban at home. Here are just a few examples of what kids are doing with their cell phones:
Sending explicit photos of themselves or messages to their friends.
Sending threats or rumors to others that usually end up in a fight.
Filming fights at school or gang fights and posting them on the internet site called youtube or myspace.
Disobeying school rules by sending text messages to each other across the room, campus, or even across town.
Causing automobile accidents by trying to read or send text messages while driving.
Notify each other of where the party will be, who has drugs for sale, where to meet when they sneak out, all without parent’s knowledge.
Text to each other late at night without parent’s knowledge that the child is even awake.
Access the internet and inappropriate web sites including porn sites.
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