Parents And Gadgets: Is Giving Your Child A Mobile Phone A Good Idea?
Mobile phones help keep us in touch with our children
, even when they are at school at camp or with friends. It helps parents to feel more assured and the children more safe to know that they can instantly contact one another with just a push of a button. However, cellphones can also be distracting to children, so before you give them a mobile phone. Make sure that you think out and consider these tips:1. First of all, thing about the main reason why you should give your child a phone. Think about the sort of phone that they would want and what features should be available in that particular phone. Since older children have different tastes from the younger ones; they might want a fancy phone with tons of extra features. On the other hand, when it comes to price; simpler phones can be purchased a lot cheaper but the quality is still good.
2. Many children like playing around with their phones; additional features such as games, cameras, web browsers are an additional distraction for them. You can teach your kids to be a responsible mobile phone user, tell them that credit is important so that they can call and text, so they should limit downloading games, songs, ringtones on their phones. This will help them to save each month. It's a good idea to look for a phone feature will allows you to restrict dialing some numbers other than a few important ones.
3. There are mainly two ways that you can pay for calls and texts on your child's phone. First is what you call the post-paid or contract plan then the other one is the pre-paid plan. Having a contract plan will allow you to pay a minimum cost each month as compared to loading each week. There are companies that offer "free calls", but still you have to take control of your cellphone usage each month when it comes to calling and texting or else it will surely eat up a large sum of money. Pre-paid accounts are a much better option since you can control how much credit there is available and there are no nasty surprises for you when your credit expires each month. It is important as a parent that you stress the importance of managing their credits and also, you must make a deal with them as to how much agreed limit there is.
4. Being in the same network means you get to have cheaper or free calls. Make sure that the sim card that you get your child is the same network as yours.
5. Parents must both set appropriate use for mobile phone usage. It is essential that the child will understand that even when they have a phone, they don't have to keep it with them all the time., or turn it on 24/7. These rules would include that they should turn off their mobile phones while in class, at home during dinner or making homework, etc. Make sure that your child agrees and that they understand it.
Put a limit, a time limit on the cellphone usage when it comes to your children. Children often get too excited and boastful when they get something new, and how much more if it's a phone, they sure can't wait to show it off. So better make sure that you, as a parent should be able to impart to your children the importance of responsibility, managing their credit and be a responsible cellphone user.
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