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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can ask anything you want. She is not going to like it, and potentially will just hide it in a drawer or put it on as soon as you leave. One advantage to making this drastic a rule would be that it may upset her enough that she cops to the amount of texting she does and admits she's not willing to give it up.

If she's texting this much, I have to wonder if there's a boyfriend back home or if she's seriously homesick, or if she's just unable to detach from her home life. She's probably texting at night because of the time change.

I agree with the advice to have a blunt talk with her about expectations, both for phone use and being rested enough to work. And then get the LCC to talk to her. And then see what happens.
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Thank you, one thing we've noticed is that she's an anxious person. For example the snow has really thrown her off, she texts with her family nonstop about the weather. They tell her not to drive if the road are bad, she gets in a tizzy, we didn't have school late last week so there wasn't going to be a reason for her to drive. I guess she's young/immature too. 
She's great on some days, but totally out of it on others. 
I do want to get rid of the apple phone when she's working, she can't concentrate on the job if she's messaging nonstop and it's right there on her arm.
But she also sneaks her phone out, after we asked her not to use it so much she's started going to the bathroom every ten minutes, I assume that's to check her phone, kids are unattended [/quote]

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