Peer presure
May 13th 2006 | 9:28 am
#16
Thread Starter
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 7,005
From: Ballarat
Re: Peer presure
Originally Posted by ijo
My 14 yr old took over his sisters contract phone with a ten pound bar on it all was going well until he started to receive jokes ringtones etc he text stop which is apparently how to stop them coming through but that didn't work, when he eventually told me the problem he had built up a bill of £587.00 which I am fighting against right now. You are not old fashioned children are vunerable to this type of theft. Added to that have you ever suffered a long phonecall and ended up with earburn it cant be good. Hold out as long as you can.
OMG that has just shocked me, something i had not considered. I hope you manage to win the fight.
Mandy
May 13th 2006 | 9:38 am
#17
Ian O
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 26
From: Victoria
Re: Peer presure
Originally Posted by sme
Bloody hell thats awful :scared: - good luck with sorting it out .
May 14th 2006 | 4:36 am
#18
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 20,690
From: in the Sydney asylum
Re: Peer presure
Originally Posted by geordie mandy
OMG that has just shocked me, something i had not considered. I hope you manage to win the fight.
Mandy
Mandy
happened to my son too, with vodafone, he was 15 at the time successfully made company withdraw charge as he had also texted stop.Didn't allow him a phone till 15 now he is 17 and never off the darn thing
GIRLS you know!!!
May 14th 2006 | 4:46 am
#19
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 4,918
Re: Peer presure
Originally Posted by geordie mandy
Has any one got this problem.
My 8 year old son is pestering me and his dad for a mobile phone so far i keep saying no.
He often gets picked on so dont want to alienate him from us or make him feel different to his peers. the reasons i say no are
1 i think he is too young for the responsibility
2 he might get it stolen
3 he has no one to phone (his friends live in same street)
4 he only wants one cos others have one
am i being old fashioned
Any advice welcome
Mandy
My 8 year old son is pestering me and his dad for a mobile phone so far i keep saying no.
He often gets picked on so dont want to alienate him from us or make him feel different to his peers. the reasons i say no are
1 i think he is too young for the responsibility
2 he might get it stolen
3 he has no one to phone (his friends live in same street)
4 he only wants one cos others have one
am i being old fashioned
Any advice welcome
Mandy
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She will get one when she goes to high school as she may need to walk home by herself some days and i think for safety she needs one these days, unfortunately the world is full of not nice people these days
