Comments on: A Phone for a Kid http://geekgirlfriends.com/?p=904 A guide to technology from the author of How to Be a Geek Goddess. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:48:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Suzanne http://geekgirlfriends.com/?p=904&cpage=1#comment-88698 Suzanne Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:28:53 +0000 http://geekgirlfriends.com/?p=904#comment-88698 That sounds like a great phone! On one hand I find it disturbing to see teenagers and younger children walking around with a cell phone glued to their heads whole day long. (And here comes the awful sentence..:) when I was a tween.... (which was only like 15 years ago, and we were just called children in that time) I would beg and beg for a phone in my bedroom; a fixed line, not even my own number, but an extention. And of course I did not get it. I would see my friends at school and chat with them there. It seems ridiculous that children/tweens/or whatever you want to call them walk around with a phone whole day, not just contacting friends, but also mommies at the slightest trouble to come and help them out. It does not help children become independent people as they should. BUT..... now you are mentioning GPS service... hmmm. Maybe a great idea for Christmas. (Nice present for hubbie) That sounds like a great phone! On one hand I find it disturbing to see teenagers and younger children walking around with a cell phone glued to their heads whole day long. (And here comes the awful sentence..:) when I was a tween…. (which was only like 15 years ago, and we were just called children in that time) I would beg and beg for a phone in my bedroom; a fixed line, not even my own number, but an extention. And of course I did not get it. I would see my friends at school and chat with them there.

It seems ridiculous that children/tweens/or whatever you want to call them walk around with a phone whole day, not just contacting friends, but also mommies at the slightest trouble to come and help them out. It does not help children become independent people as they should.

BUT….. now you are mentioning GPS service… hmmm. Maybe a great idea for Christmas. (Nice present for hubbie)

]]> By: Susan http://geekgirlfriends.com/?p=904&cpage=1#comment-87837 Susan Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:39:42 +0000 http://geekgirlfriends.com/?p=904#comment-87837 What a wonderful discovery! This will be very handy! What a wonderful discovery! This will be very handy!

]]> By: ana maría http://geekgirlfriends.com/?p=904&cpage=1#comment-87367 ana maría Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:27:27 +0000 http://geekgirlfriends.com/?p=904#comment-87367 Some of those phones look pretty. I like how kajeet has great parental controls and offers things that kids want. It's a very good balance. Some of those phones look pretty. I like how kajeet has great parental controls and offers things that kids want. It’s a very good balance.

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