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[quote=Anonymous]I have never heard of an AP who wasn't given a cell phone.  Until maybe two years ago, there were APs who had flip phones (ours did until three years ago), but now pretty much all the APs seem to have smart phones.  Like PP, we have our Ap's smartphone on our family plan and pay about $60 a month for it.  AP is very careful not to use much data and only does heavy use when he has wifi.

I would invest in one of those glass screen covers for your AP phone and a serious case.  Our AP broke his screen about two months ago, and it's been a nightmare - he has had to replace it three times now, because each time they haven't done it right (two different places), and one place actually broke some internal wires so the GPS doesn't work anymore on the otherwise really great LG phone, which means we are going to have to buy a new one for the next AP before our two-year window is up (and pay a fortune as a result).  It's been a big battle with the repair place, AP still doesn't have a working phone, and we are out several hundred dollars.  I wish we had just gotten the serious screen cover and called it good to begin with!

We actually don't prohibit romatic sleepovers for our APs and never have.  In our handbooks we say that friends should sleep downstairs in the playroom unless we have specifically agreed to another arrangement.  We have a male AP, and we don't want male friends we don't know well walking around on the floor where our bedrooms are, nor do we want an endless stream of females in and out of AP's room.  AP has been in a serious relationship for a while, though, so we regularly have his girlfriend overnight in his room and even joining us for dinner.  Right now AP and girlfriend and DD are kayaking together on the river, using girlfriend's HF's kayaks, so it all works out well.  I think having a blanket rule but being flexible if a certain situation arises makes sense.

We just ask AP as a matter of courtesy to ask anytime his girlfriend is staying over, mainly so I know who is in my house overnight.

We have never had an AP abuse our relaxed overnight guest privileges.  We have had female APs who had friends over 2-3 nights/week, staying in their room, and that was totally fine with us as well.  It all depends on the AP.  Our APs work hard and are very much part of our family, so I try to be as flexible as possible on whatever i can be.[/quote]

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