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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You cannot recreate an 80s summer.  Kids all have screens.  Even if yours don’t, the rest do. It just isn’t the same.  [/quote]

You can arrange activities with no screens.  Have your teen invite a couple kids to the mall but they have to leave their phones in the car.    Same with going to a pool or lake.  [/quote]

Ha - those are two places where I think having a phone is actually most important incase of an emergency. Ideally screen free is at home or somewhere else under the supervision of adults (camp, or mall, movies with a supervising parent)[/quote]

This is the time to remember people survived going to the mall without a phone.  In middle school the parent could be milling about on the other side of the mall. High schoolers could handle it.  I don’t know what could possibly happen at a mall or pool that would require a phone.   [/quote]

I was one of those people.  Malls had pay phones and my mother had me keep quarters in my purse, as a standard practice, so I could use a phone whenever I needed one.  Do malls still have pay phones?  Does anywhere?  I can’t remember the last time I saw one, but maybe I just haven’t been paying attention.[/quote]

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