Texting Record

[p_rushing]

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sent & received

she must of signed up for some automatic texting stuff

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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How can you ground her without setting a limit first that she then breaks?

because she's living under his roof and not paying the phone bill.

[Antec]

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because she's living under his roof and not paying the phone bill.

The OP clearly states that she is on an unlimited plan. What does paying the phone bill have to do with anything? It's the same price if she sent 1 text or 1 million.

[deaduck]

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because she's living under his roof and not paying the phone bill.

Like it's been said...unlimited plan...ain't costing him anything extra.

And for as far as he's stated ...the girl hasn't done anything to make the texting a "bad" thing. If he's concerned...he talks to her, sets some limits and moves from there.

You shouldn't just go around grounding kids all willy nilly for behavior you don't get. You gonna ground her for watching GLEE too?

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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I'm sorry, but texting is a privilege and not a right. If a parent thinks it's a good idea to take it away for a set period, I have no problem with it. Actually use a phone for I don't know....talking.

Too much freedom is not always a good thing.

[Whitesox]

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I'm sorry, but texting is a privilege and not a right. If a parent thinks it's a good idea to take it away for a set period, I have no problem with it. Actually use a phone for I don't know....talking.

Too much freedom is not always a good (or bad) thing.

I still don't see why he should take her phone or disable texting. She's on unlimited. Whether she is talking or texting is not the issue in my opinion.

Now if she was on something like a 4,000 a month plan, and she shattered it with that massive number, maybe take it away for a while.

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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I still don't see why he should take her phone or disable texting. She's on unlimited. Whether she is talking or texting is not the issue in my opinion.

Now if she was on something like a 4,000 a month plan, and she shattered it with that massive number, maybe take it away for a while.

And just how would a parent monitor that? Call me cynical.

[Whitesox]

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And just how would a parent monitor that? Call me cynical.

Monitor what?

[deaduck]

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Where did this conversation take a left turn into Punishmentville?

Did I miss the OP saying his daughter was a problem that needed to be dealt with? Guy was tyring to get a guage on high that usage actually was...and now that he's got it. Let him figure out what he wants to do.

Suggesting grounding and taking her phone away is just message board tough guy on a teenage girl. Would you walk up to a dude in the mall and tell him to ground his daughter because she doing something?

[techhokies]

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E-mail > all

I love e-mail for almost every discussion because everyone can say exactly what they want how they want. I'm one of those who uses e-mail as a legitimate form of communication... mine are never filled with abbreviations and interweb slang, so it's my go-to for business interactions and I wish it would be my go-to for most personal interactions too. I hate the phone so much.

Same here. It's so much better than the phone, because there is always a paper trail on both sides to show that you tried to communicate with them in a timely manner. Much better than a phone, where people just fail to return your calls. Plus it saves so much time because you forgo the pleasantries.

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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Where did this conversation take a left turn into Punishmentville?

Did I miss the OP saying his daughter was a problem that needed to be dealt with? Guy was tyring to get a guage on high that usage actually was...and now that he's got it. Let him figure out what he wants to do.

Suggesting grounding and taking her phone away is just message board tough guy on a teenage girl. Would you walk up to a dude in the mall and tell him to ground his daughter because she doing something?

Chill dude. Going off the deep end are we? Nobody mandated him to do anything. He can do what he wants with his daughter, which I thought was already implied but here it is explicitly for you. Somebody said, if it was ME, I would take away texting from her for a while. Which I agreed with.
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Ever get told by your parents to go outside and play? Same deal here as far as I'm concerned. So this is now punishment? LOL

[NC State-31 UNC-27]

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I don't think it's as much about punishment as it is about just figuring out why that much time was spent texting and letting her know that isn't really acceptable behavior. I may have missed her age somewhere in this thread but this isn't a problem to be taken lightly IMO for a teenage girl.

[Moses Shuttlesworth]

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This is absolutely absurd.

[BurghFan]

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Where did this conversation take a left turn into Punishmentville?

Seriously. Like the OP said, it's an unlimited plan so it's not like she's racking up a huge bill texting so much. Now if she is spending so much time texting on her phone that it's affecting her schoolwork, then that would be a different story.

[Motown]

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Seriously. Like the OP said, it's an unlimited plan so it's not like she's racking up a huge bill texting so much. Now if she is spending so much time texting on her phone that it's affecting her schoolwork, then that would be a different story.

She's 19 fellaz, & she's a V S Model...so no, it ain't affecting her schoolwork