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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Emergency Phones For Teens

By Heather Byrnes


For a mother of three children, one of the conflicts that I deal with daily is worrying about my kids; their location and most especially their security. Oftentimes, I worry that in case a crisis happens, they might be incapable get in contact with me immediately. Considering my eldest boy is also driving in a used car, I regularly worry that the car might breakdown at any time or a highway collision may occur. To deal with my anxieties, my spouse and I came to the realization that the only real way for our kids to get hold of us immediately in case of any disaster is by means of the use of a cellphone.

In an emergency, cell phones really are a fantastic way to get in contact with your kids. The big downside, of course is that they can be pretty expensive, particularly traditional contract plans. It would be completely impractical and costly for us to get our three teenagers three separate cell phone plans - especially if they were just using them for emergencies. One more problem is that there's always the chance that one of my kids would charge up expensive non-emergency calls or texts. In that case, I would have to fork out those outrageous over the minute. Teenagers don't have the best judgment, so it's hard to trust that they wouldn't do this.

Luckily, I realized that there was an easy method to buy my teenage kids all a cell phone and stay within budget. The answer is prepaid cell phones. Prepaid mobile phones can be a cheap option to traditional and expensive contract plans. The big difference between prepaid plans and traditional contract plans is that you actually buy the minutes before you use them which. Contract plans require you to pay for the minutes after you use them (this is why you have to do a credit check.) The biggest benefit of prepaid plans is that they allow you to place a control on the amount of minutes your kids will use. When the minutes are used up for the month the phone is shut off.

By using prepaid cell phones, my husband and I can easily get all our three children phones with corresponding prepaid minutes. Doing this, my son can just leave the phone in his car and forget about it until an emergency situation occurs.

Additionally, our other two kids can each have the phone handy in their rucksacks for emergency cases or situations in which they will have to contact me or their dad immediately.

That's a fantastic solution to our problem because I can control the minutes that I buy for the children. How handy is that? No hidden charges, service fees. My kids can use the minutes when they need to and I just reload the phones each month.

Prepaid cell phones are a sure fire approach to make sure that my kids can contact me in an emergency without me worrying about any excessive costs or fees. In truth, prepaid plans are the best option if you want a no frills, easy access cell phone without paying outrageous amounts of money.




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