Cell Phone Use All Night Long ??

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Cell Phone Use All Night Long ??
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Fri, 11-09-2007 - 12:15pm
Hi Ladies.
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Fri, 11-09-2007 - 12:47pm
It sounds like your dd is neither in school or employed.
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Fri, 11-09-2007 - 2:32pm
She is taking one college english class one night a week for 3 hours.
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Fri, 11-09-2007 - 3:14pm

I'm assuming she is still living with you, not in school and is unemployed, correct?

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Fri, 11-09-2007 - 3:20pm

ahhh...I read this *after* I posted my previous reply, although I would *still* require her to turn it in to you at night.


As far as teens talking all hours of the night, my two have been known to talk late, but rarely have they made/received calls in the wee hours of the morning, unless it was on a weekend.

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Fri, 11-09-2007 - 3:24pm

This past summer my dd was up texting till all hours. She didn't have to get up early so it didn't make much of a difference to me. Once school started she stopped this. she has gotten calls at strange hours of the night in the past and I don't get that either. Maybe it's just another teen thing.


But if it is a problem, she isn't getting up and out like she needs to maybe you need to have the phone out of her room and turned off at night.


I have another question for you though. My dd has had her phone taken away because she can't pay her bill, when she gets a job she will get it back. I don't like that she doesn't have it with her in case of emergency, what is the deal with the inactive phone that you mentioned? We have a Verizon family plan and I am wondering if that is an option with us, or if she can have only certain numbers that she can call, like me, her brother and her dad. Just wondering about info that you might have on this.

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Fri, 11-09-2007 - 3:37pm
Well, I have Cingular (now AT&T, I think) and what I do is whenever my dd starts racking up the minutes, I call them up and ask them to temporarily put the phone inactive.
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Fri, 11-09-2007 - 3:43pm

This sounds like my DSD.

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Fri, 11-09-2007 - 4:23pm
Thanks for all the thoughts.