However, Jane has been ignoring her mother’s phone calls, and the father is now questioning if he is the jerk in the situation. When my kids ignored my calls, I turned off the cell service I was paying for. Once the service stopped, I would immediately receive a call or text from an unknown number reporting the outage. I would reply, ”This phone is for MY convenience, if I can’t get in contact with you, I don’t need this phone or this bill.”
15 years later they all take my calls or reply with a text they are busy and will return the call, which they do. We had set aside money for college too, but each was expected to make the investment in their own futures, so they each paid half. One son went the full 4 years, two sons went to community college and then to trade schools. Each one is now fully engaged in fruitful careers that can’t be outsourced to five students in Pakistan.
“I would reply, ”This phone is for MY convenience, if I can’t get in contact with you, I don’t need this phone or this bill.””
I like that. He with the gold rules!