Tag Archives: plans

Family, Modern Life

Don’t phone home, we’ll phone you!

3 Comments

Following Feline’s advice, I’ve bought The Orchid Hunter a new phone. It cost $199 and serves as his birthday present.

He loves it.

I took him with me to choose it – we bought it from Crazy John’s because the guy in the shop was so helpful and attentive and gave good advice I think and because Crazy John himself died this week and it was like I was wishing him well.

Bryan from Crazy John’s is leaving next week to move to Narrogin with his girlfriend. He reckons he has to move to the country to be able to afford anything, the cost of living and housing being prohibitive in Perth. It will help that for the first couple of months he’ll be staying with her folks. He doesn’t have a job there yet but has an interview next Monday. He came across to me as a sensible young man, very helpful customer service manner and I think he’d do well whatever the job was.
Erectile Dysfunction (ED) is learningworksca.org viagra properien a tremendous fear to men. The unhealthful eating habits and lifestyle choices that learningworksca.org purchase generic viagra led to the impotency. Men that are tadalafil 10mg found with the condition as a couple. This pill may be taken between 30 minutes and cialis viagra online 36 hours prior to anticipated sexual activity.
His advice to me was that if my son wasn’t going to use the phone to chat a lot, to go for a prepay plan which can be carried over month-to-month. Bryan reckons cap plans which offer say $310 for $49/month develop bad habits in teenagers. His offsider agreed. She’s had a phone since the age of 7 (is that child abuse?) and finds the cap plans have led to profligate phoning.

So I bought the nice Nokia 6300 which has enough features – like a camera and bluetooth – to keep him interested – and games (crap though they are) – to encourage him to turn it on. He keeps the charger by his bed and uses the phone as an alarm clock – so hopefully it will be charged. I’ve also plugged in some useful phone numbers for him and we’re going to try the “blind call” technique for getting us to call him and hopefully keep the credit lasting a while.

Day two and he’s still carrying it around and it’s mostly turned on. I did discover he was keeping it on silent (!!!) but we’ve sorted that out now… I hope. Lets see how he goes in a month… 🙂

Hugamuga, Parenting

More mobile advice for parents of teenagers

A colleague of mine gave me some interesting advice on the mobile question…

“Cellobella”, she said, “don’t buy the phone.

“You rely on three things when you do so: one, that the phone is turned on, two, that the phone is charged and three, that the child has the phone with them.

“The chances of all these things happening at the same time are virtually nil.

“Besides, if everyone in the class has a phone, he can use someone elses.”

Before having buy cheap tadalafil pill makes sure that you are well informed before you buy this drug. When this enzyme is inhibited, the blood vessels expand, allowing a greater flow of blood in cialis professional canada the arteries connected to the penis, the greater the amount of blood flow, the greater the erection will go away after sexual activity just as it normally would. viagra india Once Sildenafil citrate is administered in the body; it inhibits the PDE-5 enzyme. Kamagra cheap viagra samples 100 m.g. increases the chances of erection, during an intercourse with your wife. So I mentioned this to Feline as we went out to lunch today at Lamonts (did I mention it’s my birthday tomorrow…), and she said:

“The problem with getting him a phone is that then the arrangements you make become fluid. Instead of ‘I’ll meet you at the gate at 3.30 on the dot’ it becomes ‘I’ll meet you at the gate at 3.30 and will text you ten minutes before I get there’. The mobile allows plans to change and this can cause even more chaos.”

And as Feline wrote in comments, unless the phone is up-to-scratch rather than just scratched, he won’t use it anyway… That said both of Feline’s teenagers have phones. 🙂

Finally I spoke to a male colleague who told me about a phone available where you can program the phone with just 10 numbers so that it can’t be used “willy nilly”. Is that a gecko phone? I read one forum which said I would be setting my kid up to be bullied if I bought one… so maybe not…

So. I think I’ll get him a new phone on some cheap pre-pay with text plan. But who? In comments I have two “votes” for Optus and one for Virgin…