Re: teenager and cell phones?
I have a 15 year old and he has a cell phone. It's prepaid thru Cingular. A GoPhone! It's 10 cents a minute and he can call for free to any other cingular phone/customer. To me, it's wonderful for a teenager. I put a certain amount on his phone each month. It has taught him how to budget. Even though it's minutes, he knows he's got a set limit and if he goes over, he has no phone until the next month that I put minutes on it! He does really good!
We had a tracphone where it was .25cents a minute and we ended up spending WAY more than with cingular. Most of his friends have cingular so he can talk endlessly to them for free, and he's learned that saves him money. With tracphone, no matter who he talked to it charged him, so he ended up losing money!
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