My wife and I are still busy denying our daughter a cellphone. Now this?
How old is you daughter? If you don’t mind me asking, obviously.
Loose.
She’s 11.
But in human years our cats are 14, just the age when they really need them. 
Re: Cellphones for whom?
my parents denied me a remote-controlled car for years
i thought i would die
may wisdom triumph over peer-pressure and that oocky ‘group-thing’
the link didn’t want to work for me
is it the same as this?
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Yeah, same company.
My parents wouldn’t let me have a mobile until I was totally independant, basically on my 17th birthday when I was learning to drive… sounds like ur doing the sensible thing.
They absorb money like nothing on earth, and its not as though ur paying for anything. Its like people who sell downloads, its a movement & duplication of data, you can do it infinite times!
Loose.
Mary and I each have our own cell phone and then we have one for the boys. Since Ben is in high school and the H.S. is not within walking distance, Ben usually carries the third phone. But the time is quickly coming where we’ll add a fourth for Brad (currently in 7th grade). I imagine the phones are here to stay and the boys will take them with them to college someday.
As for the pet phone website, I love the “Around the Waterbowl” feature.
B
My mom forced a cellphone on me, so I could call when I broke both my legs, my arms and my neck. They’re quite useful for like calling when you get home later, or making crappy videos. I’m leaving out calling mates, coz that’s got nothing to do with my mom forcing me to have one 
My cousin however, is err, 15? And her parents dont want her to have a cellphone coz shes a tat stupid >_>
This post made no sense, ignore it.
kewl
so u got the one with voice-activated dialling then?
No, I tried explaining to her I can’t dial when I break my arms, but she won’t understand it. Plus, I dont see the sense in it…
“Mom?”
“Yes dear?”
“I broke both my arms”
“Oh gosh, where are you?”
“Errr, between two trees”
Ooh… Andrea would be really ticked if we got the dog a cell phone before her.
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That’s sooooo funny.
Hold off as long as you can, I say. They only use them for calling friends they could talk to face to face if they leant out of the window. Then they have them switched off if you want to do anything useful like find out where they are or tell them it’s time to come home.
Or they get stolen or broken.
Hope this helps.
Cathy
I’ve always wanted to get one of those GPS trackers that they inject into your arm, but my parents bought me cellphone instead…
I got my cell when I was 17, and moving away for live on campus at University. My parents got it for me so they could call… and now I wouldnt beable to live without it. but 11? when I was 11 I didnt even know what a cell pohone was. Society today is crazy
cough car cough
Tell her she can get a cell phone after I get one. 
What are these “cell phones” to which people keep referring?
If I had an 11-year-old I wouldn’t deny her a cell(ular, okay Harper?) phone.
I would just deny paying for it.
In reply to harper:
Those phones that are now, since last week (officially according the FCC), more in use (as in number of devices) than landline-phones.
Myself I bought a Nokia 6630 last week, GSM 900/1800/1900 and UMTS (or name it HSDPA or 3G) last week.
Will post the pics of unicyclist.com on it’s display once I get back in The Netherlands.