Today's Question
Monday, February 08, 2010
She Won't Stop Texting
Your 13-year-old daughter, with your permission, saved up money to buy her own cellphone. Lately she's been "texting" her friends almost non-stop in her spare time. She always gets her homework done and meets all her responsibilities, but her intense absorption into a tiny cellphone screen strikes you as addictive and unhealthy. What do you do?
Do nothing and trust that she will eventually find her balance again.
Talk to her about choices and what she might be missing in the real world by texting all the time.
Limit her cellphone usage to, say, one hour on schooldays and two hours on weekends, even though it's her phone.
Ban all text-messaging on school days.
Ban all text-messaging altogether.
None of the above
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