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Heh, have you seen the commercial for Cingular where the pre-teen daughter is talking in txt-speak to her mom?
I feel exactly like that mom, sometimes.

As a teacher...I hate text messaging! :mad: Unfortunately, parents sometimes are the ones texting their kids during school/class time. Often very stupid stuff too! Things like "I'm bored", I wish you were watching "Guiding Light" with me!

I really don't see the point of 98% of texting.....There's a bunch of ways I'd rather communicate than texting on a phone. Phone call, E-mail, in person, forum post, written mailed letter, even chatting on a computer is better!

Then again I'm not a teenage girl......but I'm not that old. Personally, I think for the most part its just another way the phone companies can get money out of you.

My daughter texted me today from school saying she needed some Advil for a headache. I don't reply to text messages from her about silly stuff, though, and she's aware of that! My problem there is that she knows with our business account, we have unlimited data, texting and voice minutes.

My main complaint is that so many of the teens *talk* in text-speak! lol
Of course, I've caught myself saying "brb" more than once :eek:

Texting is the only way I can keeps in touch with all my womens...on the low low... :)

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Originally Posted by SarahMB

My daughter texted me today from school saying she needed some Advil for a headache. I don't reply to text messages from her about silly stuff, though, and she's aware of that! My problem there is that she knows with our business account, we have unlimited data, texting and voice minutes.

My main complaint is that so many of the teens *talk* in text-speak! lol
Of course, I've caught myself saying "brb" more than once :eek:

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I agree about the shorthand getting out of hand.....coming up with acronyms for the simplest verbal commands, etc doesn't build vocab. I use shorthand/slang too but one can go too far.

I also don't like it when I see kids in the cafeteria/halls texting their out of school friends when there are classmates next to them! Maybe if they went out on the limb and talked to the student next to them they could form bonds with that person...instead I think much texting reinforces social clicks and insulates people.

I just think it rude when your talking to someone and they pull out their cell phone and text...most of the time there is no emergency. Same is true with a lot of cell phone calls.....

I hope you don't mind a Question though about the message.....was she asking you to pick up some Advil for after school or was she simply telling you she needed some then?

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Originally Posted by jglass38

Texting is the only way I can keeps in touch with all my womens...on the low low... :)

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Do they actually charge you for all 3kb of that??

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Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls

I hope you don't mind a Question though about the message.....was she asking you to pick up some Advil for after school or was she simply telling you she needed some then?

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Oh, she was saying she had a horrid headache and needed some brought to her right then.

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Originally Posted by SarahMB

Oh, she was saying she had a horrid headache and needed some brought to her right then.

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Does her school have a nurse?

Yeah, the school nurses here don't hand out meds at all unless the parents provide them.

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Originally Posted by SarahMB

Yeah, the school nurses here don't hand out meds at all unless the parents provide them.

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Wow that's kind of pointless to have a nurse....a liability thing? or a financial issue?

I've never seen any school my 4 kids have been in that will dispense any med to them. If they are on a prescription it has to be brought in it's original bottle and forms filled out by the parent. Over the counter stuff cannot be kept in purses or lockers, has to be given in at the office and they will not give it without direct permission each and every time. I suspect this is a liability issue in the days of our "sue first, talk later" society.

I don't think kids should have their cell phones on during school hours. I think they should have them for emergency purposes but there's really no need for the distraction of them during the time they should be involved in school activities. Texting mom though is you are sick and need meds is, for me anyways, a completely reasonable thing to do.

I have only one complaint with our kids....I hate being referred to as "dude" - ARGH! The older three have all have tried it and they all get the same response..."you can call me mom, mommy, momma or yes ma'am...you may NOT call me DUDE!" Usually I follow this up with the threats to dress in a tube top, daisy dukes and belt out show tunes next time their friends drop over (this one always works ladies...patent pending) LOL

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Originally Posted by SarahMB

Do they actually charge you for all 3kb of that??

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:D

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

I have only one complaint with our kids....I hate being referred to as "dude" - ARGH! The older three have all have tried it and they all get the same response..."you can call me mom, mommy, momma or yes ma'am...you may NOT call me DUDE!" Usually I follow this up with the threats to dress in a tube top, daisy dukes and belt out show tunes next time their friends drop over (this one always works ladies...patent pending) LOL

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*wildly scribbling notes* :yes:

My kids are only 5 and 7, so this is not a issue ... YET. Of course I've already received a couple looks insinuating that I am the DUMBEST thing that has ever crossed their paths.... and it begins. :rolleyes:

Oh you just wait Christie girl. They start rolling their eyes at you so much you consider making a neurology appointment (threaten to do that, makes them stop with the eye rolling thing for awhile). Then there's the ever popular "MUUUUUUTHEEEERRRRRR" accompanied by the look that says "you were never young, you do not understand meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee". Apparently children think we spring fully adult and fertile from the ground at some point???

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

I have only one complaint with our kids....I hate being referred to as "dude" - ARGH! The older three have all have tried it and they all get the same response..."you can call me mom, mommy, momma or yes ma'am...you may NOT call me DUDE!" Usually I follow this up with the threats to dress in a tube top, daisy dukes and belt out show tunes next time their friends drop over (this one always works ladies...patent pending) LOL

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LOL, I'll have to give that one a try! I'll send you royalties :D

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Originally Posted by jglass38

Texting is the only way I can keeps in touch with all my womens...on the low low... :)

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i HAVE to agree! women do it......so i do it! :D

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Usually I follow this up with the threats to dress in a tube top, daisy dukes and belt out show tunes next time their friends drop over (this one always works ladies...patent pending) LOL

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my mom makes threats like this (well used to) i'm 23 now, and all my pigs friends would probably like it now, so i she really better not do it!......................the things mom's come up with! :D

Younger kids having cell phones boggles my mind. My parents got me a cell phone when I got my drivers license. That, to me, makes sense. If I ever got into an accident, I'd be able to reach them, if they needed me to pick something up while I was out, I could.

I guess I just think that kids younger than that are at an age where their parents should know where they are/what they're doing anyway? So why do they need a cell phone? My 8-year-old cousin has one. Blows my mind.

i agree. my daughter got one when she was 17 and even then i thought it was pretty unnecc. since we have a home phone and every one of her friends had one so IF there was an emergency... there was a phone every where she went.

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Oh you just wait Christie girl. They start rolling their eyes at you so much you consider making a neurology appointment (threaten to do that, makes them stop with the eye rolling thing for awhile). Then there's the ever popular "MUUUUUUTHEEEERRRRRR" accompanied by the look that says "you were never young, you do not understand meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee". Apparently children think we spring fully adult and fertile from the ground at some point???

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Oh my.... I can't wait. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by SarahMB

LOL

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heh...we do the same thing ALL THE TIME on forums...IMO :D

i got my 1st cell phone when i was 15 i think. i didnt have texting back then, but i do now. i dont text much though,only if someone i call and doesnt answer, i send them a text to call me back.i find it to be a pain to text on my hpone since it can take a long time.

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Originally Posted by Snakeman

i got my 1st cell phone when i was 15 i think. i didnt have texting back then, but i do now. i dont text much though,only if someone i call and doesnt answer, i send them a text to call me back.i find it to be a pain to text on my hpone since it can take a long time.

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theres probably a feature you could set to make it easier to text like T9Word or predictive text or something :)

Text messaging kills bees and makes kids senile......and will eventually bring about the apocolypse!

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Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees
By Geoffrey Lean and Harriet Shawcross
Published: 15 April 2007
It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail.

They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.

The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive's inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers, like so many apian Mary Celestes. The vanished bees are never found, but thought to die singly far from home. The parasites, wildlife and other bees that normally raid the honey and pollen left behind when a colony dies, refuse to go anywhere near the abandoned hives.

The alarm was first sounded last autumn, but has now hit half of all American states. The West Coast is thought to have lost 60 per cent of its commercial bee population, with 70 per cent missing on the East Coast.

CCD has since spread to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. And last week John Chapple, one of London's biggest bee-keepers, announced that 23 of his 40 hives have been abruptly abandoned.

Other apiarists have recorded losses in Scotland, Wales and north-west England, but the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs insisted: "There is absolutely no evidence of CCD in the UK."

The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".

No one knows why it is happening. Theories involving mites, pesticides, global warming and GM crops have been proposed, but all have drawbacks.

German research has long shown that bees' behaviour changes near power lines.

Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby. Dr Jochen Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a "hint" to a possible cause.

Dr George Carlo, who headed a massive study by the US government and mobile phone industry of hazards from mobiles in the Nineties, said: "I am convinced the possibility is real."

The case against handsets

Evidence of dangers to people from mobile phones is increasing. But proof is still lacking, largely because many of the biggest perils, such as cancer, take decades to show up.

Most research on cancer has so far proved inconclusive. But an official Finnish study found that people who used the phones for more than 10 years were 40 per cent more likely to get a brain tumour on the same side as they held the handset.

Equally alarming, blue-chip Swedish research revealed that radiation from mobile phones killed off brain cells, suggesting that today's teenagers could go senile in the prime of their lives.

Studies in India and the US have raised the possibility that men who use mobile phones heavily have reduced sperm counts. And, more prosaically, doctors have identified the condition of "text thumb", a form of RSI from constant texting.

Professor Sir William Stewart, who has headed two official inquiries, warned that children under eight should not use mobiles and made a series of safety recommendations, largely ignored by ministers.

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Originally Posted by AzureN1ght

I guess I just think that kids younger than that are at an age where their parents should know where they are/what they're doing anyway? So why do they need a cell phone? My 8-year-old cousin has one. Blows my mind.

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Well, Courtney has had one for years, but I originally got her one because she was working summers in downtown at the Dallas Zoo. It gets very hot here, and at the end of her shift she would walk down to the front gate to wait for me to get her. Some days there would be traffic backups on the highway to the zoo, so I wanted to be able to call her and tell her not to leave the youth office and wait in the heat. And then it just became a convenient way to contact her when she was at her dad's on weekends, or at the mall, out with friends, etc.
A while back, she repeatedly ran up the bill with game and ringtone downloads. After warning her 2 months in a row, she had her phone taken away. Now she has her own account, bought her own phone, and pays the bill with the allowance and babysitting money she earns. I like it!

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

Text messaging kills bees and makes kids senile......and will eventually bring about the apocolypse!

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I saw that article the other day....I should email it to my daughter!

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Originally Posted by SarahMB

I saw that article the other day....I should email it to my daughter!

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You should....tell here "It is all fun and games until you get a wicked case of 'text thumb'".....LMAO...

I read another article about how keeping cell phone near the 'private' areas (i.e. your front pockets of pants) can lead to sterility.

Fun stuff...

...I see alot of people throwing fits about global warming these days....but I bet everyone of them pollutes the world with cell phone radiation.

Truth is....Until people start dropping like flies (or bees), the population could care less about the problems cell phone can create down the road.

Oh before I forget Christie another pearl of mothering wisdom for ya hon. This one is tried and true just ask the three oldest kids. If they are acting up in the grocery store and since you have to put up with the piped in muzak that some stores play, starting singing along, loudly, badly and off key. If they don't immediately desist acting up in the store and bugging for treats....toss in some lovely but very poorly executed choreography. In seconds my dear you will have very obedient children, even the very threat of such action from mom will result in the best behaved kids in town.

This one I will say does not work with young Michael (the artist formerly known as Mikey). He unfortunately has called my bluff and will happily sing and dance along with me! ACK!

P.S. Funny how my husband dreads entering a grocery store with me?????

I wouldn't have to 'try' to sing badly. Fortunately or unfortunately (depending on your distance from me), I enjoy it anyway. :D I think it would work great with my son, but my daughter would just join in. We always sing with a hairbrush microphone while I dry her hair. (it's the only way I can get her to stay still long enough to dry her hair a bit)

Thanks for the tips Jo. Keep em coming. Any tips on getting dried caked on mud out of shoes? The kids went camping and I'm just scared to tackle the stupid things. (they're still sitting in a bag in the laundry room)

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Originally Posted by gibbrishclown

theres probably a feature you could set to make it easier to text like T9Word or predictive text or something :)

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it has that actually.but i still hate typing every word(even abbreviations) and then waiting for them to text back. i prefer to just call them where it's faster and easier.

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Oh before I forget Christie another pearl of mothering wisdom for ya hon. This one is tried and true just ask the three oldest kids. If they are acting up in the grocery store and since you have to put up with the piped in muzak that some stores play, starting singing along, loudly, badly and off key. If they don't immediately desist acting up in the store and bugging for treats....toss in some lovely but very poorly executed choreography. In seconds my dear you will have very obedient children, even the very threat of such action from mom will result in the best behaved kids in town.

This one I will say does not work with young Michael (the artist formerly known as Mikey). He unfortunately has called my bluff and will happily sing and dance along with me! ACK!

P.S. Funny how my husband dreads entering a grocery store with me?????

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that is so funny! I do it to my kids all the time! lol! They play alot of 80's and 90's music in the grocery store I go to and I will start singing and dancing and my kids will BEG me to stop! lol. especially Cait...she is 8 and very easily embarressed! lol.


My oldest daughter had a cell phone until it got stolen this school year. She is now saving her money to buy a new one now that she has realized I am not going to get her another one. She had it for 3 years though and it was her freshmen year of high school and somebody stole it out of her purse. I do think it is a good thing for her to have one since she is involved in alot of after school activities. I never know what time she will be finished with anything. They (the school) tells you one time and they never get done at that time.

but...I really do not like text messaging. I have a sister that will text her friends while in a conversation. It ticks me off.

Set the shoes in low pans with very hot water just enough to cover the bottom but not enough to leak up into the join of the actual shoe fabric. Let em sit for a bit so the really hot water can loosen that mud up, then use the hose carefully to wash the mud away. Alternately you could use an old hard toothbrush to scrub at the loosen mud in the treads (never toss out old toothbrushes...they are amazing little cleaning tools!) :)

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Originally Posted by jeffnme

but...I really do not like text messaging. I have a sister that will text her friends while in a conversation. It ticks me off.

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yeah i have some friends that when i talk to them on the phone or on their cell phone, they tell me to "hold on" and i hear them clicking away on their cell phone and it gets on my nerves when i have to hold on every single time while they text someone else.

Never discount the value of a good embarrassing moment to bring those kiddies around LOL. :P

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Never discount the value of a good embarrassing moment to bring those kiddies around LOL. :P

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Are your sure that it is 'embarrassing' to them?.....or are they taking notes so they can use this against you in the future?

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Originally Posted by Child

Doctor, Mom has always been a little senile. She would dance and sing around in public with reckless abandon. I think the electro-shock therapy would be great at treating her condition

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ACK I never thought of this Daniel! Evil...just evil....scuse me whilst I go put on a nice dress, my pearls and start acting like a respectable, middle class mom of 4. Geeze you can't win for losing when it comes to sneaky children! :P *busy channelling June Cleaver*