When Kids Should Get Cell Phones

Plinky asked me, “At what age do you think it’s appropriate for children to get cell phones?”

 

I am sure I am jealous, but I never got to carry around a phone when I was a child. Sure, it would have been a bit clunky, and I wouldn’t be able to go too far because of the cord and all, but it would have been fun. Well, no, wait. No, it wouldn’t. It was too much fun hearing my mother yelling for me in the neighborhood to come home for dinner. What fun would it be to just hear my phone ringing. Or I’d get a text, “Dinner time.”

Ok, I got off topic. As a fourth grade teacher, I would say that a child should be able to own their own cell phone no earlier than 5th grade.

Oh hell, I don’t know.

Oh, Lord, Won’t You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz

Mercedes

I didn’t know it at the time, mainly because teen-agers are not of this world, but when I was 16, I had to take my dad’s car when my mom just wasn’t feeling like letting me use hers. My dad had a grey 1972 Mercedes, and I thought it was the ugliest thing I had ever seen. The dashboard was ugly and well, I didn’t feel pretty driving it. I would cry when my mom would tell me, “Take your dad’s car tonight.” I would moan and complain, to no avail.I didn’t appreciate the fact that a 16 year old girl driving a Mercedes Benz in 1972 was pretty cool.