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MineralMan

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1. Basic cell phones are available. Kids hate them.

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2013, 01:49 PM

Mar 2013

Parents should consider these carefully. If the reason for a cell phone is so the child can communicate with the parent, then a basic phone is all that's needed. Prepaid basic cell phones are really cheap.

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Basic cell phones are available. Kids hate them. MineralMan Mar 2013 #1

I had them disable texting on our plan and our kids do fine without it. talkingmime Mar 2013 #2