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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This seems bizarre for an 18 yo but is it’s really a punishment, why are you getting her a different phone? Why not take it away completely? It seems like a huge hassle for a month. I’m assuming she has access to some tech somewhere on a laptop to do everything a smartphone can do.

If it’s for “emergencies” then the real punishment should be not going out for a month to parties or whatever she does where she would need an emergency phone. All of us were driving without cell phones at 18. [/quote]

Exactly.  Sounds like how you would treat an 8 yr old more than an adult.  Lying about grades, taking away phone as punishment, etc.  [/quote]

???  This is an 18 year old high school student, not an adult.  Of course she needs a consequence for bad / unsafe  behavior.  As a parent I would want her to have a phone for emergency use but I can see why the OP wants it to be for talk and text only.  Today is different from 20-30 years ago when we were all high schoolers.[/quote]

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