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 Ok, here’s a situation: Let’s say that a parent has been buying phone cards for their kid’s cell phone for years, a $20 card every month. Now the kid, when activating the card, ends up with an extra hour of free minutes on their phone. Should the kid offer to share the minutes with the parent since they’ve always bought the cards or should they keep them for themselves?
Personally, I think they should offer to share the free ones. After all, the kid wouldn’t even have a working cell phone if the parent didn’t buy the cards every month. I also think that kids need to learn that sometimes you have to do the right thing even if you don’t really want to, like buying your little brother an ice cream out of your allowance b/c they lost theirs. Of course, I wouldn’t be buying my kid a phone card every month anyways, if they wanted a cell phone they’d be earning the money for it.
What do you think is the right thing to do is? Do your kids think of others or just themselves? Do you think that a parent should be buying a kid a phone card every month?
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1.  writersedge (4411) | 5 months ago |  I think there is a difference between wants and needs. Parents should provide needs, like food, shelter, and clothing. Cell phones, the kid should be earning money for. Don't have any kids, just my opinion, but if the parent doesn't supply it, will have a rough time monitoring and making rules for their cell phone the way the world is going.
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| twoey68 (9618) | 5 months ago | I've always looked at the same way. Parents are supposed to provide the needs but if kids have to earn the wants they end up taking better care of their belongings.
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| writersedge (4411) | 5 months ago | Oh yes, but it doesn't end there. They develop a work ethic. They learn how to handle money. They become prepared for the real world, etc. | |
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| 2. blackbriar (6223) | 5 months ago |  I strongly believe every child should earn whatever it is they want. My daughter has her own cell phone but she earned it by doing various chores or helping someone else. She also earns her phone cards every month for it. If she doesn't earn it, she is without a phone. She wants to go to the fair, she knows she has to save her money or earn it some other way. When my contract is up for one of my foot routes, I'll be turning it over to her and she can't wait. She'll be earning her own money and learning more about responsibility as well. I took on the route foreseeing this happening soon.
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| twoey68 (9618) | 5 months ago | I've tried to get this message across to the parent but it's no use. Now he has a teenager that expects it all...on a silver platter.
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| blackbriar (6223) | 5 months ago | That's the parent's fault, not the child's. | |
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| 3. jillmalitz (3918) | 5 months ago |  My daughter buys minutes for her 13 year old daughter. Her daughter knows that she is to be responsible and use the phone wisely which she does. I don't know if they get free minutes but knowing my granddaughter she would offer to share.
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| 4. dragon54u (9544) | 5 months ago |  I do not think children need cell phones. They are losing their childhood to these things--they no longer run and play or look at cloud shapes, they text and talk all day and night. I've seen kids as young as 8 texting away and never looking around them. When they are old enough to work and earn money, they can buy their own phones if it's so important to them.
This junk about being connected to the entire world on a constant basis is ridiculous.
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| twoey68 (9618) | 5 months ago | I do think they are a waste. I think the only good situation to have one for kids is if they are going to a friends overnight and need to have it so that the parent can check up on them or if the kid needs their parents. School trips is another good reason for them to have one. In situations like that though a central cellphone for the whole family could be kept just for those types of situations. I can't see kids carrying them around just for gabbing to their friends. They do seem to be missing out on a lot of the childhood things I remember doing at their age.
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| dragon54u (9544) | 5 months ago | Well now, that's another thing...when I was a kid and spent the night elsewhere, I relied on myself to solve my problems. It helped me mature and find out what kinds of decisions to make. Children aren't maturing well these days because they always have help just a dial-tone away. | |
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| 5. BarBaraPrz (3380) | 5 months ago |  I don't think parents should be buying their kids cell phones at all, never mind the phone cards!
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6.  slickcut (6006) | 5 months ago |  A lot of times when you buy phone cards on a regular basis they will sometimes give you extra minutes, if it were my kid i would let them keep the minutes because its not really a lot of minutes, and its a gift to them...As far as buying your brother an ice cream cone because he lost his money would be nice to share ...I think its nice to share and i have always taught my children to share, but if i buy them a gift, and they benefit from that gift then it is theirs to keep....but they should not deny you a phone call if you need to call someone on their phone, since you do buy the minutes...
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| GardenGerty (20278) | 5 months ago |  This sounds very reasonable. I can see my kids, or even my adult disabled clients doing this.
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| 7. GardenGerty (20278) | 5 months ago | I think that in the same situation, my kids would at least offer to share or give it to me. On the other hand, I probably would not have gotten them cell phones. They earned the money for any electronics they got. I think my kids were pretty special though. | |
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8.  pranavpillai93 (215) | 5 months ago |  I don't think that this is a big deal. The parents always have their own money to get them talktime! Why should they take it the free minutes from their child?
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| 10. nanajanet (2658) | 5 months ago |  I have to laugh because I would never buy minutes for my kids for their phones. They got their own cell phones and paid for them, or they did not get one. I cannot fathom giving a kid such a thing. If they are old enough to have one, they are old enough to work to earn one, so your question is moot for me. LOL
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