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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, yikes for being a parent that wants to teach their kids prudence. While they're living in my home, a phone is a privilege, not a right, and they need to prove they can be trusted with it. If they break that trust, they lose the phone.

I'm not giving them a phone because their friends have phones, I'm giving them a phone because I trust them with it and there's a reasonable reason for them to have it. I don't need to know where my child is 24/7, I just need to know that they'll be home at a given time and not break our rules when I'm not around, and I need trust for that to happen, not a tracking device.