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It’s interesting how so many people claim that they want space from their cell phones but yet forget that they have the ability to turn them off. Turning off cell phones is the fastest and easiest way to gather up some of that free from the ringing of cell phones time you have been craving. Why don’t we do it? Because we know that every time the cell phone rings it might be something important, although most of the time it really isn’t. We make things important because they pay the bills or they offer us some solace from something. But if we tallied up the number of times our cell phones ring and how many times those calls are really all that important, we would find the power down button more often.What keeps us from turning off our cell phones, other than the importance angle, is that we don’t want to have to admit to our boss or our friends that we did it. We don’t want to tell them that our time is more valuable than whatever they might have wanted and we don’t want to lie about it. So we resent the cell phones and their intrusion on our life but we don’t offer ourselves any solace by knowing that we are making our own choice. How can we resent the cell phone when we are allowing it to tie us to the pseudo important calls of our life? Turning our cell phones off carry a simple implication that prevents us from doing it.

With the easy accessibility to cell phones, many parents are left wondering when it is appropriate to offer cell phones to their kids. There is no magical age when a child is ready for their own phone, and it is a decision that can only be made by keeping the child’s personality in mind. Latch key kids are often better of when they have cell phones as this helps parents keep track of their movements and their activities. However, offer your kids their own cell phones too early can just rob them of a certain aspect of childhood.

Cell phones are becoming the norm and many kids simply expect their parents to buy them their own phone as soon as they hit middle school. While some kids in primary school tote around cell phones, there is need for responsibility when it comes to a cell phone. It is very easy for kids to rack up huge phone bills without realizing it and there is a likelihood that they will get themselves in trouble once or twice by having a cell phone in school when it is prohibited. Some parents need their kids to take cell phones to school in order to continue communication after school, but this can land a child in detention. Keeping cell phone use to a reasonably and responsible matter means knowing whether your kids are really ready for their own phones regardless of their age. Cell phones will most likely replace the home phone in a number of years, but you don’t need to shove the new technology into their hands before they are ready.