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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]Why my kid has a smart phone:  School bus was stuck today.  DD did not know exactly she was.  I used "FindMyFriends", located her (and a few other kids that I knew) and brought them home.  #CloseFCPS[/quote][/b]

Smart phones:  Your ticket to the ultimate in helicopter mommying.   Imagine the horrors that might have befallen her if mommy hadn't found her: an adventure on the bus with her schoolmates...being a little cold....a lesson about dressing warmly (if she wasn't ) a lessons about how sometimes things go wrong and you just have to suck it up and deal.  You must be so proud to be teaching such fine survival skills to members of the wuss generation.  Way to go![/quote]

I mean, seriously people.  How did you all survive childhood without GPS detectors on you all the time.  When I was in elementary school, I walked to and from the bus by myself, came home and made myself a snack, did my homework and didn't show up again until 6pm for dinner.  Even if I didn't have my trusty wrist watch, I could gauge the skies enough to know when it was close to 6pm.  In the summer I was NEVER home.  My mom had no freakin clue what I did all day but I gained confidence, survival skills, street smarts, common sense and negotiating skills that these current generations are clueless about.

And I remember being stuck on a bus in the snow for 3hours on the way to school.  NO ONE called our parents during or after the "tragic" event.  We told them at 6pm dinner and neither parent got upset.  They said we were lucky we didn't have to walk to school and were safe on a warm bus and went back to eating.  And none of us thought anything of it.  How did all of you turn into such whiny babies.  Your parents would be ashamed of you.   Social media and these boards just stir up and accept the ridiculous complaints and if you take a step back and really think about it.  Is it really THAT big of deal if your kid doesn't have a phone.  What is the hidden anxiety if you don't know where they are at all times or can't reach you.  Let them use some critical thinking skills for once instead of running to Mommy.  Geez! [/quote]

I agree 100% but moms these days always have a rationalization for everything but most of which is that they need to keep up with the Jones's and give their kid everything their friends have.  [b]They just claim it is for safety but if 99% of the kids did not have them, neither would their kids.[/b]  They don't know how to say no, so instead of looking like a wuss, they give their "valid" reasons.  [/quote]

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