From the article: A Sample Cell Phone Contract for Parents and Tweens
If your tween has a cell phone, you probably have some cell phone rules in place. Do you limit the number of texts your tween can send a day, or do you require that the cell phone be turned off after a certain hour? Do you allow your tween to bring your cell phone to the dinner table, church, or other gatherings? What are your family's cell phone rules, and what do you do when those rules are not followed? Share Your Tips
Reality
- Think real. Kids are responsible if you let them be, they are not when you are an over protective soccer mom. I'm a cool mom who knows what's right for my daughter. She has no limits on her phone since we have taught her good ethics! Can't you all get a life, or teach your kid what is right?
- —Guest MOMM
Don't just simply give them a phone
- My daughter is 11 and a half, and she really wanted a phone. She bites her nails too. I didn't feel that she really needed one, but after about half a year of begging, I finally said to her " if you grow out your nails .5 cm, and never bite them again. So she didn't bite them, and I got her a phone. Although I don't have restrictions on her cellphone, I totally trust her. We also made a contract saying some things I don't want her doing on it!
- —Guest Janice
This info is pricelsss!! Thank you!!
- I modified the content to include "myself" since that seems to be yet another new risk: I will not send embarrassing or inappropriate photos of myself, family or friends to others. In addition, I will not use my phone's camera to take embarrassing or inappropriate photos of others or myself.
- —Anetraoc
Cell phone rules
- My daughter is limited to about 8 texts a day. She is 12-years-old and since I'm a working mother, I knew that it was time to get her a cell phone. At night she must turn the phone off at 8:30 p.m. Many of her friends have cell phones but their parents do not have any rules about what they can and can't do with the cell phones so my daughter likes to ask why she has to follow rules. Still, it is best to set rules for your sons/daughters.
- —Guest Nicole
