DH called me on his cell to ask for popcorn last night..........

[paigevz]

..............all the way from upstairs. In his defense, he's chronically ill and gets very tired, but it got me thinking how many others use cell phones as intercoms or walkie talkies?

Do you think that's why kids want them so young? That it's like walkie talkies to them? My 5th grade son is pushing for one, and I posted a while back about two second graders in our school having them (that we knew of). These were their own personal phones. We had to let the parents know that they can't have those turned on at school. They said they'd told their kids to keep them put up, and I said, oh, they had. I was teaching a reading group when a backpack began ringing...........somehow the child had set an alarm to go off on his phone, and it was going off. He wasn't even in the room at the time.

If your child has a cell phone, at what age did they receive it?

 

[Muffin]

My husband and I do the same, and I can't claim illness or even a 2-story house as a reason. We're just lazy sometimes.

 

[4greatboys]

Was that wrong ? I have called me teens before upstairs. They are heaving into WOW right now and play with their doors closed. I dont always feel like running upstairs just to tell them something or ask them a question so I have called on the cell before. I have also IM'd them

My 2 oldest got cell phones in 2004 they were 14 and 16. My oldest was going out more with friends and I liked to be able to get hold of him when I wanted to. It just gave me more piece of mind knowing they could call me when or if they needed me and I could reach them.

 

[daisyduck123]

DD11 got one for her 11th b-day. In all fairness, she really needs one. She's on a year-round swim team & swims 6 days a week. We drop her off at the pool many times, rather than wait each night for 2 hours. This way, she can call us if she needs too, rather than use some other adult's cell phone.

Which she actually has had to do a few times in the past when they closed the pool due to someone throwing up in it!!

BTW, DH & I never call each other from inside the house.

 

[paigevz]

Not that there's anything wrong with that .........seriously.......... I am just wondering if the attraction of using the cells like we used to use walkie talkies as kids is what is attracting the kids to them. Is it that it's portable like that? My son can use the landline phone to call friends anytime he wants to, but he still wants a cell.

If he had one, no doubt I'd call him upstairs on it too. Sometimes I have to SCREAM 4 or 5 times before he hears me with that door closed and the video games/tv/radio going.

 

[luvdzne]

I called DH last night after I was already in bed. I wanted some water when he came up, and I was too darn tired to go down stairs and get it my self

 

[Tigger&Belle]

My DD got her cell phone when she was 15yo and my boys got them this last fall when they were turning 12 and 15yo. Sometimes they do come in handy. My 12yo brings his with him when he plays with friends in the neighborhood so I can call him or him me. He came home from school sick Friday and was going to go upstairs to rest. I suggested that he bring his cell so he could call me in case he needed anything and he looked at me like I was crazy, but the kid couldn't even talk and I thought it was a good idea! I brought him to urgent care yesterday and he was resting in the van for most of the 2 hour wait (he did have the flu) and I wish that he had of had his cell so he could have called me if he had of needed me. I was parked right out front and could keep an eye on the van, but would have felt better if I could have talked with him.

 

[CPM]

We only use ours like walkie talkies when we are on vacation, because it's so hard to get a channel to yourself any more with the cells.

My DD got her cell phone when she started driving.

My son's school just sent a notice home that they will take the cell phone if they use one at school. He's in third grade.

Now for the lazy thing, sometimes we IM each other while we are in the house

 

[anewvance]

I've been doing this often since Wed. But I have an excuse, the car accident... my knee and foot are busted up. It's worked out well!

I like those new little phones you can buy for younger kids that are programmed to only call 2 or 3 people. When my girls get a little older, I can see myself buying them one of those. But as for a regular cell phone, I really see no reason until they are much older.

My little sister has had a cell since she was like 13 and I think that's perfect.

 

[Pam]

I've done the cell phone thing in the house -- as well as using my home office line to call the house line when I am working and don't want to quit to find someone.

Both of my children received their cell phones when they were 15 years old.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

No, but I have seriously fantasized about having an intercom system throughout the house.

 

[SplshMtn99]

No kids. But I have used my cell phone from upstairs (3rd floor) to call DH downstairs (1st floor). I'm not walking up & down all those stairs! lol

We USED to use FRS radios, but we had to keep charging them, and we were never in the room that the radio was in being charged. His phone is constantly with him (due to work), so I just call that now.

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

When I am home(I'm a junior in college) my dad will call me on my cell phone from down the hell or downstairs when he needs to talk to me.

 

[Stephanie218]

I was at my friend's house the other day, and after her sis went to bed, she decided she wanted water and called my friend to go get it for her.

I thought it was cute, but no one would put up with that in my house!

 

[momsgonwild]

DH called me from the bathroom on his cell to remind me to buy toilet paper because we were out. We were three rooms away from each other, and he calls me? I asked him why he didn't just wait and tell me when he came out, and his answer was that he might forget.
Wow, like is he solving world peace and hunger in there or what?

 

[PixieDust32]

LOL! My DH called me once from the bathroom bcs he was out of toilet paper.

Well, my 8 year old and 12 year old want a cell phone so bad, but we won't do it right now, one reason is that they don't need a phone, second that they're not very responsable yet. My DS now 16 almost 17 didn't get his phone until he 9th grade, so we had told the girls that not until high school and they need to be responsable like their brother.

 

[Lisa L from MI]

Last week when I was sick I called DH from my cellphone while in bed upstairs to bring my some diet 7-up with ice and a straw....he wasn't too happy about it but I did get my pop!!

 

[Tanuki]

I was putting my 4 year old to bed and already had her tucked in and just about to turn out the light one more time when she said "I want to say goodnight to daddy". (this was just a stalling tactic since she had already said her goodnights). So I called him from her room and handed him the phone.
She said "good night, daddy" and he thought it was so cute.

 

[shortbun]

We use ours as walkie-talkies and we also have intercom cordless phones at home. Our son got his cell phone(my old one) when he was 10. He rarely uses it. It's a security phone, not a social tool for him.

 

[AMcaptured]

I call my daughter when we aren't on the same floor all the time. The idea of screaming at the top of my lungs for her to hear me over the music or television makes me feel like a wrench, so I dial up instead. Its weird but it seems to me much more civilized. I have IM'ed her from a few floors away too!! It is rather bizarre but I guess it is probably something we will be seeing more of instead of less.