As a happy father of two, I am consistently concerned about baring my children to unnecessary quantities of any one thing. Decades of existence have shown me that excess amounts of any one thing, no matter what it is, may be unhealthy. I was against the idea of my children having cell phones, and rightly so. I see children (a lot that may even be in elementary school) staring at their phones for prolonged periods of time, oblivious to the outside world. Children should be getting outside, enjoying life, interacting with people (physically), and just living life. The quantities of technology our young ones are being persistently attacked with all the time is very scary.

With my own children, I limit them to one hours every day on the television, one hours every day on the PC(with homework as an exception) and one hours every day for video games. Many would agree these restrictions are definitely fair. My children, though, disagree. When they entered high school, they started observing their classmates with phones. Naturally, they soon were convincing me to purchase them phones of their own. I was originally skeptical of the idea. Current mobiles are like mini PCs, and I knew they would spend all day playing around with them.

My opinion began to change when my children told me about a lot of the positive aspects of cell phones and the internet. They told me how computers can be used for collaborative note taking, online encyclopedias, e-books, and much more. When was time for my children to start their GRE test prep, they revealed that there are many iPhone test prep apps. Who could have thunk an iPhone could be used for test prep? I explained to them that I could purchase them mobiles, and if they ranked above a twenty-five on their ACTs, they could hang on to them and I could cover the bill through college. They accepted, and got an program called Watermelon express. I would highly vouch for it to all the kids preparing for tests out there. I'm happy to announce that my children actually ranked way better then their score limit, and I have one gigantic cell phone payment!