I thought I would blog about this because although it is not funny now, it will be a great story to show Brandon when he gets older and has children of his own.
Our boys both have cell phones. Believe it or not, we LET them ride their bikes and enjoy being young boys, the same way Raleigh and I grew up running around the neighborhoods we lived in. Anyway, they use their cell phones to check in with us or we call them to come home. To my surprise, (that's what mother's do...we don't expect our children to abuse their privileges), my son, Brandon has been using his phone to TEXT message his friends and receive text messages. Luckily for him, his father opened the phone bill while he was at work. Here is the breakdown:
Received text messages: 615
Sent text messages: 536
Amount added to our regular cell phone bill: $259.57
And yes, this was in 1 month!!!!!
The thing is, his friends LIVE in our town so he could have easily called them on the home phone and it would have been free and harmless!! Is that so hard in the 21st century??? What an old, old person I am. How did I survive my childhood without texting?????
Needless to say, he doesn't have a phone anymore, and he is my chore child for the rest of the summer. He can not complain not ONE bit!!! I don't think he realizes how much money that is and how long it would take him to work on his own to pay his father back (mowing lawns...etc).
What's really funny is that I told him we were going to get a print out of what he texted and what the text said that he received and read it around the campfire this week while we are in the mountains on vacation. I think he must have sent some messages to a "girl-friend" because he said he was going to put his head in the river and put a rock over it...he's laughing and embarrassed at the same time.
I love you Brandon, and this WILL NOT be the last mistake you make. Just make sure you learn from your boo-boos!!!
P.S. Robby is feeling like the golden child right now!! :-)
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Ok..get the boy unlimited texting! Tell Daddy to breakdown and do it. When we got Dez's phone I made sure I added the $10 a month for unlimited text. That is the new way of communication. She sent and received over 900 last month too. I review her phone about once a week and it is really silly stuff they talk about at 11! Most of the texts are one worded! I'll tell Dez not to call him..LOL. And tell daddy to add the plan!
lol....you think that's bad. My brother WAS on my parents cell plan until he racked up a $1250 bill a few months ago. Can you believe it!!!!!! Texting his girl who he could have easily just called. Ridiculous!!!
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