875 Text Messages a Day!

[ICF]

To make you feel better I sent out 950 texts in this last billing cycle.

but her daughter is averaging almost that every day

 

[taylor1293]

A voice of reason!

OP, if this is the worst thing your teen daughter does, give yourself a pat on the back and move on!

I just checked my teen daughters' texts (which I never do, as she has unlimited). And the last day I could view (that she didn't have school) she texted and/or received about 650 texts. Who cares! She doesn't get into any trouble, make responsible decisions, keeps good grades and for a teenager, has a pretty good attitude (minus some moments here and there). Unless things change, she can text away as she pleases. When I was her age I talked on the phone for hours at a time, she just uses her fingers to do the talking. I don't see the difference.

As long as grades, family time, and normal interpersonal relationships are not suffering, I think it's ridiculous to overreact to how many texts a teen has racked up in a month. What difference does it make?? Unless you are SURE that she is making every one of them and spending the amount of time you have estimated, I think you should back off completely. Unlimited texting is not that expensive and you are not judging her actual activity correctly. What if half of those texts are received? It doesn't take more than a few seconds to read a text and hit "erase", and the normal teen doesn't need to spend the amount of time you think texting - they are very fast.

I don't think the replies that say "Good for you and you need to crack down now!!!" really know what they are talking about.

Trust me, there are MUCH bigger battles to fight and why a parent of an otherwise healthy and happy productive teen would want to get in this battle is beyond me.