What will you do if your kid broke his or her phone on purpose because they want to get a new one, and they need it for their safety.?
By cuttyrish
@cuttyrish (3131)
United States
July 22, 2019 10:32am CST
What will you do if your kid broke his or her phone on purpose because they want to get a new one, and they need it for their safety.
I won't let this pass, but if the kid really needs the phone for safety, I would just buy a cheap phone or one of those flip phones instead, because if you buy want they want, this just validates their reason for breaking it. Never spoil a kid, because they won't learn from good and right. How about you guys?
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@Ineeddentures (23468)
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3 Mar
Well if one of my kids did that they wouldn't be getting another phone from me
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@cuttyrish (3131)
• United States
3 Mar
Yeah, they need to learn about the consequence and they need to earn it
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@Ineeddentures (23468)
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3 Mar
@cuttyrish
Too right
If mobiles had been around in the 1970,s and I smashed one on purpose
My father would have gone apeshit
@cuttyrish (3131)
• United States
3 Mar
@Ineeddentures kids during that year, or decade are more disciplined. Parents have a way to discipline kids and it was it missing today. Ive just read that there was a kid that shot his dad because they took away his phone ... So different now.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
22 Jul 19
I agree with buying them a cheap phone limited to calls and texts, with a limited number of minutes, to be used only in emergencies. IMHO, and I'm backed up by tons of research, any child not old enough to drive has little need of a cell phone and no need for a smart phone.
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@cuttyrish (3131)
• United States
3 Mar
Fair point. Smart phones are more want than need for most kids
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@owlwings (43900)
• Cambridge, England
22 Jul 19
I'd first establish that it was, indeed, broken on purpose. Then they would get just a basic phone, not a smart phone, because that is all that they need 'for safety'. Such things cost about £/$10, are perfectly good for sending and receiving calls and SMS, have a long battery life, are cheap to run (on PAYG - no data) are fairly robust and nobody in their right mind would want to steal it!
If they then still yearn after a smart phone, they would be told that they have to earn it and save up for it! No nonsense! Do they think that I'm made of money? &c. &c.
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@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
22 Jul 19
I would buy them a new phone, but it would be a cheap, "boring" phone, not a smart phone. They would be able to call and send text messages with the new phone, but not much more than that.
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@cuttyrish (3131)
• United States
3 Mar
I've got the same idea. I also don't want here to give a smart phone right now because instead of doing their homework, they are letting ai do it
@cuttyrish (3131)
• United States
22 Jul 19
A wise idea, i will do that as well in caase that happens.
