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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can’t a kid without a phone just use email? Why does everything have to be texted?[/quote]

They may as well make plans via telegram. They do not check email frequently enough to make spontaneous plans.[/quote]

Don’t parents coordinate anyway, regardless of if the kids have phones? I’m not dropping my kid off at someone’s house if I haven’t heard from their parent to confirm [/quote].

No, my 11 year old tells me where they are going and when they will be home and I don't feel the need to call parents or otherwise involve myself [/quote]

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lol right?? What do you expect from a parent who hands her 11 year old and iPhone and says good luck![/quote]

Okay, team helicopter. If the idea that an 11 year old  should not be trusted to manage such a basic social interaction as making afternoon plans isn't a recipe for anxious and incapable kids then I don't know what is.

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I don't think it's helicopter parenting to want to know who your 11 year old is with. [/quote]

That sounds good in theory, but here is what happened on a recent Friday afternoon.  My sixth grader planned to walk to Larlo’s house after school.   No wait now it’s Marlo’s.  No now the group wants to come to our house.  But wait!  Farlo’s mom just went the store and got the good taquitos so they will go there.

All four kids have been at the same school/teams/pool for years and I know the parents well.   It was all last minute and if I had been part of this while trying to work at 2:30 when MS got out I would have been pulling my hair out (or my kid would have been left out).  Instead, I got the story at dinner and could just shrug and say “middle school boys.”  [/quote]

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