2013-01-02, 04:15 AM
ShinkuDragon Wrote:I honestly hate this, my stepdad is pretty much like this, and he doesn't skip a chance to remind us so, all he makes me want is to leave the house and never come back.[COLOR="#cc8899"]
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From the way this one was written, I don't think the mother's intent was to be tyrannical about it. All of the rules are pretty normal things to say when giving a phone to someone who's barely a teenager, she just took the trouble to write them down. I got a very similar speech with my first phone at...sixteen. Not thirteen. And that phone didn't have any internet or game capability, all it could do was call, text, and take pictures.
I HIGHLY disagree with giving a 13 y/o a tool like an iPhone that has such a vast selection of ways to make a poor decision that has far-reaching consequences. I would hope at least that he had a less capable phone previously that he proved himself with. At any rate, there's too much that he can use the phone to access unmonitored, so I fully agree with the restrictions they imposed (and wouldn't be surprised if they're tech savvy enough to follow up behind him and check his activity with it when he hands it over each night).[/COLOR]