Reply To: Cell phones for children (or parents)

Dovv,

Which high school, Yeshiva and camp do you go to that doesn’t have payphones? It’s very uncommon for such places to not make payphones available.

I can’t get over how teenagers constantly say they need a cell phone for safety and security reasons. Teenagers are known to live as if they are immune to virtually anything. That’s not an insult to teenagers. It’s a simple fact of life. for a teenager to think he’s not safe without haveing the security of a cell phone with him makkes you wonder where exactly is the kid going and at what times that he or she actually needs the dependency of an emergency cell phone in case “things get out of hand”?

Maybe giving them the illusion of security and connection to thier private network of friends is ironically the most dangerous thing to give a child (or any adult for that matter).