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Originally Posted by Jenn218 We didn't buy my daughter her cell phone - my MIL did for Christmas. She is 12 and a cell is the "thing" right now. She wanted the pink razr too.
Only one of her public school friends has a razr, but it wasn't pink. My daughter is homeschooled, so she doesn't really think about or care if she is "in style" that way. She is definitely in style because she has a room full of high tech things (nice laptop, pink iPod nano, white iPod, DS lite, etc) and clothes and such.......just being at home, she understands what is more important and she doesn't care if a friend has something she doesn't have, etc. She just enjoys being friends w/ all the friends she had in school, just w/o feeling the pressure to "keep up w/ the Jones'" if that makes sense - she is all about the latest trends because fashion and such is one of her passions, but you get the picture...........
Anyway, I posted earlier about doing search on the razr phones. My MIL did search for a long time...asking everyone she knew who had one questions, talking to salespeople, etc. She works at our local university too and asked tons of the college kids about phones. Her over all impression on the razr was not that good, so she opted for something else...I am not certain what my daughter even has; is that bad???
Anyway, we do NOT like to be tied to a contract - at all! So the phone my daughter got, is a no contract phone - she just told me it was by Cingular. It is a small (very small) flip phone w/ text, games, music, camera, etc...and MIL had put 500 minutes on it. With this, we do not have to worry about when she can use it (nights, weekends, etc)....and we are not tied to a 1 or 2 year contract, etc.
The razr has pay as you go too, but w/ the bad reviews that my MIL got, she went w/ what was the best "raved about" one. Now, I'm not saying my daughter wasn't disappointed in not getting the razr, but she was ever so happy to have a stylish, super small cell! We have had no problems w/ this phone. We love it.
I am just saying....it might be an option to teach her more responsibilities. I know, they are 12, but a friend of mine was saying that her son constantly left his expensive letterman jacket somewhere or lost it, they went through two of them before she made him start paying to replace it himself and that solved the problem --- from then on, he took better care of everything he had, knowing he would have to replace it himself! This might seem harsh, but dang, that is a great way for our kids today (who have anything and everything) to be more responsible. Even the best of kids make mistakes, but that little nodge can get the ball rolling................
Good luck w/ the phone! I hope it starts working again! |