kids with phones,email
Find a Conversation
kids with phones,email
| Sat, 01-20-2007 - 4:58pm |
okay son turned 9 last month. he lost internet access for visiting site he should not have visited. he tried to set me up for online dating as well as other things. i look through the sites he has visited and check his emails. son can call anyone he wants. he just has to tell me when he wants to call. E-mail is gone until he earns internet back.
xh wants son to have a cel phone. i think son is too young and it is too much responsibility. i pay for unlimited phone service and my # is listed. if anyone wants to call,just call at a reasonable hour.
so do you give your 9yr old cel phone and unlimited internet access?

Pages
My kids are 15, 13, 10, 7 and 5.
All our kids have web access and email. We have msn that tracks everywhere they've been and sends the parent a record (how long, where, who they im'd w/, etc). Their email accounts are restricted-- they give us the addys they want to be included, we add them-- they can only send to and recieve email from those accounts that we approve.
The 15 yr old has unrestricted web access. The 13 yr old has web access that is somewhat restricted-- she can't go on blog sites, she can't go to chat rooms, some web sites are restricted. The 10 yr old has even more restricted web access. The 7 & 5 yr olds are restricted to just kids approved sites.
phone-- we have a home # and phone available. The kids can use it if they ask an it's appropriate. The 13 yr old (girl) uses phone often, but has to get off if someone else needs it, we also have call waiting and caller ID. She and 3 friends had a conference calls during the first 2 nights of American Idol (rolling eyes). The 15 yr old uses it to arrange stuff, but prefers to email or talk to friends in person. The others aren't really interested in phone time yet.
cell phones-- we have a kid emergency cell phone. The older kids take it w/ them when they'll be at practice or a lesson w/o a parent or if they're at church for something and need to let us know when they'll be done. We don't see the need for our teens to have text messaging or any of that-- they don't have the phone on them most of the time.
I know from my older 2 that most kids they know have cell phones. Most of their friends has unrestricted/unmonitored web access. Not going to happen here!
Betsy
I must be a very mean mom! We only just got Josh his own cell phone. it is just another number we added to our acount. But we keep it in our side drawer and Josh only gets the cell phone if we are dropping him off somewhere by himself such as the bowling alley for his league and we have to be at the soccer field at the same time for the other 2. I will probably give it to him when he is out and about and I want him to come home during vacations etc.
As far as the internet. Josh wants to be able to go on but I am very guarded about it. I am just worried about Josh being very vunerable to child predators. Granted he seems to be only interested in the game sites but still. Plus I really get worried about the stupid things other kids do such as cyberbullying. Plus I am sure Paula has heard about this one. a bunch of kids videotapped some girls beating the crud out of another one and then they posted it on YouTube. I am so not going to let Josh get involved in this crap.
Heck, they had Playstation up until last year when we finally upgraded to Game Cube and Josh is just now looking to upgrade his game boy to a Nitendo DS(they are hard to find) but I am much more of telling Josh to go out to play. But he will go to his friends houses and play video games there. But in out house he is only allowed to play E rated Games but he has played E-10 and teen games at his friends houses.
But I guess i am not very well easy.
I will have to judge as time goes on.
Rina
Pages