I was trying to think of a witty way to bring this up, but honestly, there isn't really anything funny about it and I am just going to put it out there:
If you have kids that text or use Facetime, please let them know you will be checking their texts and restricting Facetime.
We have always checked Daughters texts and made sure we know all her contacts. So far so good, have not had a problem yet.
My concern stems from texts that my Middle child is getting from girls and stories from friends about texts and/or Facetime incidents.
It's not even the content so much that concerns me, it is 1)the time he receives these texts and 2) how if he doesn't respond immediately, these girls get pissed.
It had gotten so bad that I sent an "all recipients" text to his address book clearly spelling out his rules with the cell phone.
Want to know them? Here they are:
His phone is turned off and handed to me at 10pm.
We check each and every text he sends and receives.
He cannot access links to anything, so don't even bother.
If I find anything inappropriate, the senders parents WILL be notified .
I don't think this is excessive and of course some of his lady friend recipients had some choice names for me but you know what? I don't give a crap. There is NO reason 11 year old girls need to be texting my son after midnight, then demanding to know why he isn't responding.
I wish these girls would realize that their daily happiness is not dependent on some boy, their worth is not based on how quickly a boy texts them back, and that they don't have to be so damn demanding to get a boy's attention.
Girls, that turns the boys off.
I never would have thought having boys would be harder than having a girl, but man oh man, this is way harder than I would have thought.
The morale of my rant is this: Parents, please set clear rules on the phones/itouches and make sure you follow thru. They may be annoyed but we are the rule makers here, not them.
Cat
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