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Originally Posted by patteeu
I don't have any problem with how you handled it at all, but I'd point out for The Bad Guy's sake (since he's a noob at parenting and all) that the same lesson could be taught to the kid by charging him the $60/month even after paying for a lawyer and saving the family some dough. There's no reason why the insurance company has to be the big winner here.
When my daughter first had her cell phone, she kept going over her minute allowance (her share of our family plan). It wasn't a big deal financially to our family because my wife and I weren't using up our share and we had rollover minutes to absorb the rest, but we had to find a way to impress upon her that she needed to get herself in check. Our solution was to start charging her for the minute overages in months that she went over and then in months following an overage month we'd take her phone from her and only let her have it on weekends and when she was out somewhere where we might need to reach her. After a few cycles, she finally bought into the limits and started making responsible decisions. The point is that we taught her about responsibility without enriching the phone company.
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Makes sense to me.
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