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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I started my children with a non-data phone on a pay-as-you-go service. If they broke the rules, they lost the phone. I didn't want to be locked into a plan or have paid for an expensive phone if that happened, because I didn't want that to be part of the issue.

After a year of the non-data phone with no major broken rules, they get a data phone on a pay-as-you-go plan. I keep the non-data phones because if they break the rules with their data phones, they still need phones for emergencies. Have only needed the backup for one of my kids. I intend to keep the pay-as-you-go plans. I think it helps the kids to know I am not trapped in a plan, that I could turn off their phone immediately with no penalty.[/quote]

OP here.  I didn't really think of it that way.  We would have rules for phone usage.  Do your kids pay for any part of it (monthly for the phone or anything)?  I was thinking of taking the cost of the phone (like the tracfone's I saw at Safeway) and having my kids pay a small monthly fee towards the phone.  I was thinking $max of $5/month until the phone is paid off.  The phones I was looking at ranged from $9 to $60. Not that I can't afford to just buy the phone.  DH and I want to do this to have them take some responsibility for the privilege of having a phone.[/quote]

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