Kids and Cell Phones

[ovrszd]

This discussion seems to constantly reinforce a misperception. A Cell Phone doesn't reduce a kid's ability to communicate face to face. A Cell Phone doesn't create a non-imaginative or non-creative person. This is another example of our society not taking personal responsibility for their actions. It's always someone or something else's fault.

I have a 10 yr old Grand Daughter that has a Cell Phone. So do her 14 and 16 yr old Sisters. All three girls have excellent communication skills and are very self sufficient and productive for their respective ages.

Not sure what sports practice has to do with the title and subject of this discussion??

 

[Bikewanderer]

Well I started the thread and I was lamenting the fact that it seems things like ending practice on time and planning ahead Have gone the to wayside and Because my kids don稚 have cell phones makes it difficult for them to get A ride home when they need it. Heck, it makes it difficult for me also. I go to the gym every day at 4:30 and I haven稚 been in a week because my daughter keeps calling me before I知 even there asking for a ride home. I feel bad making her sit in front of the school for an hour and a half waiting on me. But it really ticks me off because I can稚 seem to plan my evening.

The real problem is that the school and coaches seem to be unable to just make a schedule and keep it. It would be easier for my daughter if she had a cell phone but that doesn稚 really solve the problem. She doesn稚 drive and her mom doesn稚 get off work until five and if I知 not on the road for business I try to go to the gym every day from 4:30 to 5:30 which makes me unavailable unless we plan ahead. If she had her own phone she could probably keep calling people until she found a ride but the real problem seems to be the school.

I致e talk to other parents about it and they all agree it痴 a problem but they just excepted as normal. Most voiced concerns that if they start raising trouble with the coach that their kid won稚 get any playing time.

To me this seems to be a problem caused by cell phones. It seems we as a society have gotten lazier in regards to scheduling and I guess I知 just now realizing it.

 

[ovrszd]

You have a legitimate complaint in regards to the sports Coach specifically.

I can't stretch my thoughts about this far enough to make the connection that it's caused by Cell Phones.

 

[Bikewanderer]

Does anybody know why every apostrophe I use looks weird?

 

[Jstpssng]

You have a legitimate complaint in regards to the sports Coach specifically.

I can't stretch my thoughts about this far enough to make the connection that it's caused by Cell Phones.

Apparently his kids are the only ones without phones, so he is the only one complaining. I still don't see why there should be such a problem having a schedule and sticking to it... isn't one of the purposes of sports to teach kids about teamship and following rules?

 

[Bikewanderer]

You have a legitimate complaint in regards to the sports Coach specifically.

I can't stretch my thoughts about this far enough to make the connection that it's caused by Cell Phones.

I see it as a societal change brought because of cell phones. When there was no way to call and tell people when youæ±*e done you had to make plans ahead of time and just stick to them. This is definitely not the kids fault but my choice not to let them have cell phones is causing them some real difficulties.

 

[downsizingnow48]

Yep. I was thinking the same thing. Help kids deal with the world as it is. Or jam them into the world as you think it should be.

 

[ovrszd]

Does anybody know why every apostrophe I use looks weird?

That usually happens when using a Cell Phone to respond.

 

[atsah]

Seems to me from a post here that you can limit certain things they can do with the cellphone, why not get them a phone and adjust what they can do with it and still be able to supervise what they do on it.. I think cell phones are important these days and with proper supervision they are very useful..

 

[aczlan]

Does anybody know why every apostrophe I use looks weird?

Yes

That usually happens when using a Cell Phone to respond.

Depends on the phone.
What happens is that some phones use a "fancy" quote that is angled rather than straight and the website does not support those characters.

Aaron Z