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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Voice of dissent here.
Cell phone number is not to be given out. They can call on the home phone.

No more embarrassing than telling my friends I couldn't accept phone calls after 8 pm, or my mom picking up the downstairs line and saying "I need to call your father, please hang up soon" and my friend saying the obligatory "hello Mrs. Jones."

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I don't know a kid who calls another kid's cell phone. They all text. I get not giving in to every whim because other kids are doing it, but are you really okay with limiting your child's social life so severely? Texting is the medium of choice, and kids who can't text are out of the loop in short order.

The idea of parents not allowing kids to keep up with their peers socially by texting remind me of parents who don't allow girls to shave or wear make up until some arbitrary age in spite of the fact that most of their peers are already doing so, and it causes the kids discomfort which the parents are insensitive to. Being a teenager is hard enough socially, why make it harder for them?[/quote]

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