My Daughter Doesn’t Use Her Cell Phone Enough
I’m sure my complaint is not going to stay true forever, but it is certainly how I feel right now. Sure, it all started out fine the first few weeks she had it. She took it with her to school (kept it off during class - after all she is just in 5th grade), called her friends in the evenings and texted her one or two friends who have their own phones with text message plans.
Then the trouble started. No, she didn’t do anything wrong with the phone. She just didn’t do the chores we had assigned to her for the privilege of having a cell phone. So her punishment was to have her phone taken away for a week. (We’re thinking we’re such good parents at this point.) This happened twice within a two month period.
While her phone was in exile she reverted back to using the home phone to call her friends. Her one or two friends who have text message plans realized she never texted back, so they stopped texting.
Now she never takes her phone anywhere, uses the home phone all the time and never texts anyway. OMG! Now we are paying our $9.99 extra to keep her on the family plan, plus $5 per month for 300 text messages and the phone just sits there. Can’t cancel the number, it is still under contract.
Should we ground her until she starts using her cell phone more? That doesn’t seem quite right.
Should we entice her to call her friends more often? Not sure that’s good either.
What’s a HighTechMom to do in a situation like this? Any ideas?
WAIT! I got it. I’ll just break her away from Webkinz and have her read it. That should do the trick.
HAHA that made me laugh.. Well, what you can do is ask her to go out with her friends (of course your gonna give her money for shopping and stuffs) then ask your daughter to bring her cellphone. Then give her a call, then just ask questions like “how are you guys doing? or something OR set up a party in your house, then invite all of her friends and her friends’ friends. In that way, if she makes new friends they can exchange phone numbers, then she’s gonna start using her cellphone more often. Good Luck!