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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly I think no phone during working hours is too extreme to be feasible. Even teachers carry their phones in their pockets, check them during independent reading or test-taking times, etc. (and to one of the PPs - yes, doctors check their phones regularly - I'm a nanny for one and he texts me all day long!) so it's a little over the top to ask her to keep it away in her room all day until she's off duty. How old are your children? If it were me doing the managing, I would ask her to restrict her usage to independent play-time, nap-time, while the kids are at school, etc. But honestly, to expect her to sit and stare at your kids for 8 hours is insane - you wouldn't do that, and it isn't healthy for them to have any adult's undivided attention all day (they've got to learn patience sometime!). That said, there is a difference between using it for 5-10 minutes an hour and checking it every 3 minutes... the former, imo, being fine, and the latter being insane and unacceptable. See if you can find a compromise that she feels like she can live with and you are comfortable with and give it a shot with the understanding you'll reevaluate how it's going in a week or two.[/quote] Really? 10 mins per hour is OK with you? Over the course of a 45 hour week, that adds up to 7.5 hours that you are paying her to be on her phone. If she watched TV for 7.5 hours, would you be cool with that, too? [/quote] So make it 5 minutes an hour, I don't care. From my different jobs, in three fields, I think that is a reasonable amount of time to spend connected - you can disagree, I don't mind, but I absolutely believe (having been one) that office workers spend more than 10min/hr surfing the internet, online shopping, gchatting, facebooking, playing solitaire etc, so I'm just trying to be realistic.[/quote]
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