Hammer Time!
If this were you're child, what would the punishment be?
I don’t get this texting thing. Hell, it’s a phone! Talk on it. Tell tell you the truth, teens should get a cell phone with no add ons. No text, no camera, no internet.
Since he has already done the ultimate right thing....I probably would have just taken the phone, and let her have it back at MY convenience, for safety reasons when she was going somewhere. I think. We have always had the unlimited package for texting, which probably saved us from this ever happening. Our son was 15 years old when we bought him a phone, and it was more of a security thing. There was not a lot of time spent on it until he got a girl- friend....
The usage and charges can be monitored online. The parents just weren’t thinking. We have changed plans upon the advice of a service rep and very quickly changed back.
Parental controls are $4.99 a month with Verizon. A parent can set hours the phones can be used, block what they don’t want their child to have, block numbers, etc. Well worth it if a young teen is going to have a phone.
When they are paying for these things themselves, they can have free rein. It is amazing how thrifty a kid becomes when financing things from their own pocket.
Why didn't they have text messaging blocked on their account.
I have ours blocked on our phones, I don't know anyone that uses them and I got tired of having to pay for receiving advertising plus having to even get it.
The dad did well.
I learned form other people’s kids. My kids have only been allowed prepaid phones that they have to pay for.
Then my daughter was a brat and I took the phone anyway.
If they want a phone, get them a cheap Tracfone or some similar pre-paid phone with minimum features. Let them pay for the $19.99/$29.99 cards they’ll have to buy to get minutes.
That way, it comes out of their pocket, which makes them manage how many minutes/texts they burn.
Just after we got the Verizon family plan, my Daughter rang up about a $100 worth of texting charges the first month.
I called up Verizon and blocked that faster than you can text OMG WTF.
Hammer Time!