Did you see the Good Morning America piece about the mom who made her son sign a contract regarding his new cell phone? The mom admitted a lot of her 18 points were meant to be humorous. However, here are six of her points that every parent should employ.
2. I will always know the password.
4. Hand the phone to one of your parents promptly at 7:30 p.m. every school night and every weekend night at 9:00 p.m. It will be shut off for the night and turned on again at 7:30 a.m.
10. No porn. Search the web for information you would openly share with me.
11. Turn it off, silence it, put it away in public. Especially in a restaurant, at the movies, or while speaking with another human being. You are not a rude person; do not allow the iPhone to change that.
12. Do not send or receive pictures of your private parts or anyone else's private parts. Don't laugh. Someday you will be tempted to do this despite your high intelligence. It is risky and could ruin your teenage/college/adult life. It is always a bad idea. Cyberspace is vast and more powerful than you. And it is hard to make anything of this magnitude disappear -- including a bad reputation.
18. You will mess up. I will take away your phone. We will sit down and talk about it. We will start over again. You and I, we are always learning. I am on your team. We are in this together.
You can read her whole contract here. Watch the Good Morning America segment here.
(Good Morning America. (2012, December 30). Mom Has Son Sign 18-point Agreement for iPhone [News Segment]. Retrieved from http://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-mom-son-sign-18-point-agreement-iphone/story?id=18094401#.UO0CkHddB8F)
(Hofmann, J. (2012, December 27). Musings (blog). Retrieved from JanellBurleyHofmann.com: http://www.janellburleyhofmann.com/gregorys-iphone-contract/)