No, it was working fine until Scott took a swim with his phone and his phone died. So he was dealing with customer support on my phone and then the little thing in the back of the phone that turns pink when it's water damaged went from white to pink. I think he must have had really sweaty hands or something, since it never met with water. *shrugs* It only started having problems after he'd used it so I have to sorta assume that's what happened. I was around him most of the time he was on it and he was never around water so he couldn't have dropped it. It's just weird.

I think it might also be some phone company conspiracy. Once your phone reaches a certain age they self destruct some part of it so you have to spend money and get a new one. >.> lol

I'd be inclined to agree... I got an insurance plan thing on my new phone cause it was stupid that I couldn't use my old ophone and that they wouldn't fix the stupid charger thing ><''

We have insurance on our phones too. But both were up for upgrade so it wasn't really worth spending the $50 or whatever it is to get the insurance to cover it when we had a free upgrade.

Gemini- sending a link now. (:

How old are your kiddos?

I think it is too funny to see this convo start up in here... I was asked... Yesterday? I think how young is too young for a cell phone... Well more "when will you let your kids have a cell phone?" so my immediate response was "when they can pay for it... But honestly that isn't entirely true... If Michael's sperm donor still took him to and from school on Mondays, I'd be inclined to get him a cell... But more then likely it would be the kind of cell phone that would only allow 4 numbers... that were pre-programmed... Not that I think Mikes would call someone just to chat... Just that he is an air head and would mess with buttons if he had them ><;; but last year Michael was left for an HOUR at school before the school called me to tell me his dad had been taken to jail and his ex-stepmother was going to pick him up... A WHOLE FREAKIN HOUR!!! If Mikes had a way to call me he could have gotten a hold of me right away!!!

Kura was left at school for almost two hours last year on her birthday. Scott was stuck at work, and we only have the one car so I had no way to get her when the school called here and was like uhhhh where you at? I was in tears after the phone call, and frantically trying to find scott on base via the telephone. No one had any idea where he was since they hadn't seen him since before lunch. He was stuck in one of the night vision goggle labs fixing all the NVG's that the person who was supposed to be taking care of them had been ignoring for the past couple of months! And his supervisor wouldn't let him leave until it was done. It was total bull shit and I felt like such a horrible mother because of it.
Her party the saturday following her birthday made up for it though. >.<

I wouldn't really mind getting them cell phones...when I know they won't play with them and call random numbers. Until they can use my phone properly they can just stick with not having their own. (properly as in make a call or answer a call with out hitting a bunch of random extra buttons)

Yikes! Poor baby. </3

Is it verizion that has the cell phone with like 4 buttons for kids? Or does he just have a basic phone with the numbers that you've programmed in as the speed dials?

I am going to have to look up the phone now O_o

The one I found is an LG but I don't know who the carrier is... I know Cricket carries them ><;;

Yeah! That's the phone I'd seen before. It also came in a pink color. I thought they were pretty cute. ^^;;

I saw the pink ones... If I needed to get my kids a cell that would be what I got them. They don't need them except in emergencies... Even in high school I think cell phones are silly unless said person can drive and then the phone should not be used WHILE driving >.> and still should be only in an emergency... ><;; Unless my teenager has a job and is paying their own cell bills I am NOT getting them a phone... Like I said... I may have considered it for Mikes but now I don't have to worry cause his sperm donor no longer picks him up or drops him off at school...

If his donor moves to Kansas like Mikes has been saying he is going to. I am going to look into getting Michael a phone... I am pretty sure that there isn't anything I can do legally to keep him from taking him there for visitations... But I will not have Michael be gone for a week to a few months without some way to make sure everything is ok with him </3

If you suspect abuse (and his donor "teaching" him to swim sounded pretty abusive) you should be able to prevent him from taking him out of state. He's your son more than he's his son. Or if you don't think he can care for him adequately. Like, ya know, not being able to pay child support monthly. Hopefully you can find something to prevent it. Because that...just plain sucks.

I can suspect abuse all day long... ><;; but here if there is no proof... It is like throwing a water dropper at a house that is on fire :( I hate this state... and this city...

Need to get a daddy cam. >.< Hook it up to mike somehow and get proof!

Haha like the ones they stick in teddy bears lol

Exactly!

Maybe but where could I put one that Mikes wouldn't know LOL

And it would have to be something ON him so that it would catch his donor doing whatever his donor does

We had to call child protective services three times on one of my ex friends in the coast guard when we KNEW she was neglecting her daughter. She would go out after putting her daughter down for a nap and not go back for her for 5 hours or more sometimes. She would also leave her daughter in her high chair and go out, leaving the child there with a dog that hadn't been fed in 3 or 4 days or taken out to use the restroom. It was scary. Finally they came out when she was gone and her daughter was in the house and they took her and put her into foster care for about two months...but somehow her mom got her back. That's pretty much the last we heard of them. her husband got out of the coast guard and they disappeared. Leaving behind a lot of work for the housing people, since they didn't clean out their house at all. I'm really hoping that her husband had set up an automatic deposit with the coast guard for his pay check...that way they could just take the money he owed back out!

It bothers me becasue she was obviously not a fit mother. She openly told her daughter that she hated her. It was the saddest thing. My kids will tick me off sometimes to the point that I want to pull my hair out and scream bloody murder at them...but I'm not going to actually do it. >.< I felt so bad for her daughter. The girl was so sweet with the cutest blonde curls...but becasue the mom hated her dad she took all the anger out on her daughter. No one made her keep the baby she could have given it up for adoption, hell she didnt even have to have the baby in the first place. She choose to...why is she making the daughter suffer for her poor choice? >.< I really hope she's matured past that...or gotten her daughter taken from her for good. Just because the courts think the best place for a child is with the mother doesn't mean it's true.