Ujm:
What you say about children is correct. However, it proves too much. If children are astute enough to get around blocks on phones, what makes you think they aren’t astute enough to get into the same trouble they would have gotten into with the phone anyway?
Brooklyn19:
I don’t know the types of friends you keep, but in my experience, talking (and even hanging out) does not necessarily lead to touching. If the inclination to do that is there, forbidding them to talk to members of the opposite gender (while you’re looking anyway) is not going to stop them. I would rather teach my children how to handle the situation than shelter them from it completely. As I said before, shelter them completely and they’ll have no idea what to do when they are on their own in the situation – which can end up WAY worse.
Walking on the street could “destroy” your child’s soul – do we keep them locked indoors? It’s the mass hysteria that a cell phone is a sure way to doom your child to hell that is the problem.