Giving Children Cell Phone
More and more children are howing up at chooleach September with cell phone. Many parent buytheir children a cell phone becaue it i a nice afetymeaure. It give thoe working parent a littleene of control and ecurity to know when theirchildren are off campu and on their way home.
But having a cell phone might be a problem. Parent may find themelve facing afrightening bill at the end of the month. The reaon: chatting on the phone and ending textmeage can oon become the favorite patime of preteen and teenager. Wore till, cellphone in chool can lead to claroom ditraction, text-meage cheating andinappropriate photograph.
Knowing their children can alway be reached i reauring for parent. But before buyingtheir child a cell phone, I think parent hould decide if the child i really capable of managinghi or her own phone. Beide, parental control mut be exercied in the ue of the phone. Forexample, they hould et limit on how long the child i allowed to tay on the phone.