What are your reasons for not wanting your daughter, who has offered to be responsible and pay her own phone bills, to have a cell phone? What would change your mind? I need a range of opinions.
2007-12-31 15:12:26 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Adolescent
Oh, I'm the parent. I'm just curious.
2008-01-02 05:26:00 · update #1
how can a 12 or 13 year old pay for their own cell phone? do you get a huge allowance ?
i really don't think a 12 or 13 year old needs a cell phone, unless they spend a lot of time in activities and away from home and need to call to check in or for a ride home.
both my kids lost everything until they were over 20 years old... ! i can't imagine giving a cell phone to someone young. i have other things to spend money on, and my kids never "suffered".
2007-12-31 15:31:04 · answer #1 · answered by letterstoheather 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
haha. btw; if you asked this question in the Parenting sections, i think you'd get a lot more [and better] answers.
i'm 14. i got my first cell phone when i was 10. but still, i don't think anyone who hasn't graduated college/university really needs a cell phone. parents don't want you to pay for it.! though they often say things that make us teens think that they just want us to pay for it and learn the value of a dollar, it's so not true. they don't think you need it. and don't want you going over minutes, because they've probably heard horrible stories from their friends about how their children wen to over the cell phones minutes. it gets ugly.
btw; do you have a job.? besides allowances and working chores.? good grades.? good friends.? no drugs.? obeys parents.? kind of siblings.? helps around the house.?
if you said yes to all the following, then i don't think it's about how your iresponsible, but more on how... you don't need one[x
ah; good luck.[;
2008-01-01 00:33:39 · answer #2 · answered by elceee<3[= 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well I was 13 years old when I got my first cell
2007-12-31 18:29:40 · answer #3 · answered by W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ummm i don't know. talk to them about it. promise them that you'll get an A grade in almost all the subjects.... seriously. Parents don't want their children to work but do well at studies so that they can pay them later.
2007-12-31 17:27:23 · answer #4 · answered by SIMONE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For starters a 12 year old child has no need of a phone, I survived until I was in college without a cell phone and the only reason I have one now is because I work on a tug boat and it is the only way to stay in contact with my family.
2007-12-31 17:16:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont be sad. I m 15 still i dont have cell. Our parents wants us 2 concentrate on studies thats y nothing else.
2007-12-31 16:01:17 · answer #6 · answered by LIVE AND LET LIVE 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if my child was to pay for it some way, then I would consider giving in, otherwise, no. I didn't one growing up, but we have grown so accustomed to having to be in contact with loved ones 24/7 that life with out a cell phone would be horrible.
2007-12-31 15:25:21 · answer #7 · answered by Beth 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i was 15 when i got my first cell phone.
2007-12-31 15:25:19 · answer #8 · answered by Melanie M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im serious i was 7 when i got my first cell phone. the only one in 2nd grade who had one!
2008-01-02 16:29:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
you dont need a phone!! what can you possibly do with it? call youre little middle school friends? well you can do that using your house phone.
2008-01-01 10:08:27 · answer #10 · answered by East-coast Girl 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋