Sunday, 05 April 2009
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Kids and Their Phone Calls
by Mama Bee 
I could hear my sons phone ringing from downstairs. "Bubba, go get your phone, it's ringing." I continue to fold clothes with his brother. He walks down the stairs talking and laughing.
"Who is it?"
"It's my friend Zack," he says as he continues on with his conversation. "No. This is my cell phone number, not my mom or dad's. You can call me on here anytime. Well, except after 7pm because I have to get ready for bed and not during school and if I'm grounded I can't have my phone. But you can call me anytime," he says.
I only hear his part as he sits across the couch from me.
"Yep. My own cell phone. You want one for your birthday? Okay. When is it? Oh, let me ask," he pulls his phone from his ear.
"Mom, are we busy in August?"
"Um. You start back to school, but other than that, I dont know. Its pretty far away. Why?" I ask
"Zacks birthday is in August and he wants to know if I can go to his party."
"When is it?" as I finish the question he is already answering it.
"27th. But he doesn't know when he will have a party yet. Can we also get him a really cool present?"
I don't ever remember having conversations like that as a kid. It was so funny, they were so random and then when my son didn't want to talk anymore he said, "Okay, I'm bored. I want to go play with my sister and brother. Bye," and just hung up.
I made him call back and apologize because that was rude but I guess, when two 7 year olds are talking on the phone, they aren't exactly good at it.
Do your kids talk on the phone with their friends? If so, what's the funniest thing you've heard them say?
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- About Me: Hi, I'm Mama Bee. I'm from Colorado and I've lived here my entire life. I'm happily married to the most amazing guy and have been for going on 3 years. I am a stay at home mom with 2 step sons that live with my husband and I full time. C is 6 and J is 5. My husband, Daddy Bee, and I have a daughter together. K is 15 months and is a miracle baby. I would like to have another baby but due to some health issues I've been told I may not be able to. I believe that is why God gave me my daughter and our boys. My family has and will always come first. Marriage and motherhood are hard, but the most rewarding things I've ever been able to experience in my life. We have our ups and downs, we're not perfect but we try, we live, and we learn. We laugh when things get hard and we are thankful when things are easy. With 3 kids our life never seems boring. I look forward to sharing my family with you!
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Wait... he has his OWN cellphone at 7 years old...? Wow, lol.
I don't have kids and long time until I do, but when I was a kid, I always made animal noises randomly... yeh, I was considered pretty cool because of that hah.
i didnt get mine till i was 14....that was last year
even now i don't call that much on my phone - only for txting during class...
I got mine when I was 14 I think. lol.
I havent heard any of my younger family talking to any of their friends on the phone. i did, however, once hear one of my friends little sister (who is 7) talking on the cell phone. But she always sounds like a bitch and on the phone she was no difference.
WOW. I have already decided that my kids will not have phones that young. I understand why some would, but I did have a cell phone till I was 18!! And I'm only 22! And I survived just fine! I had to have a list of emergancy numbers in my pocket when I went places so I could call if I needed too. Maybe 13 for my kid, deffinatly by the time they are driving.
Oh maybe were crazy but we already decided that our kid can not have a computer or TV in thier own room untill they are 18!!!!
When I was a kid, I never knew what to say on the phone so I always asked what my friend had for dinner.. Weird.
Your 7 year old has a cell phone? Wow. Why?
aw, wow. i got a pager starting high school and during that time i begged my dad for it ans then slowly i got a phone afterwards.
when i was in grade 3 or something i remember i would call my friend to talk and when my asked who called who, i would say my friend did.. lol cuz i thought i would of gotten in trouble for using it on my own =/
wow. a seven year old should NOT have a cell phone =\
What exactly does a 7-year old need a cell phone for? I didn't get a cell phone until I was 14, and then my dad took it away and didn't get one again until I was 16.
No seven year old on the plant needs a cell phone! Why the heck does your kid have one? And he especially does not need to be telling all his little friends that they can call at anytime. That is ridiculous.
I never had a phone until I was 14. I lived perfectly fine without it. There really is no reason for kids to talk on the phone anyways except to family members (grandparents, parents).
Okay people. You can lay off the woman now! Sheesh! Why is it any of your business why the boy has a phone? The topic wasn't the phone, it was the random conversation that he came up with. Us moms, myself included, need to learn to keep our opinions to ourselves. You can't or shouldn't tell someone how to raise their child!
If you follow Mamabee at all, you would know that her boys are actually her step sons and they have limited contact with their natural mother. Perhaps the phone is for their natural mother to call them on without having to speak to her ex or Mamabee.
I'm not defending the fact a 7 year old has a cell phone, but I don't have a seven year old, or any step children.
I got my first pager when I was in 10th grade, and i had to pay for it.
Haha, yeahhh, I will admit the first thought that popped into my mind was... a seven-year-old with a cell phone?! But to each their own. Haha.
I love listening to my brother (who is 12 now), but even hearing him talk in the past... it was some pretty funny conversations. He is still somewhat rude with how he hangs up, but maybe that is just boys. Haha.
Wait.....hold on a second....
Your seven year old son has a cell phone?
I'm not tryin' to sound offensive because I don't know the situation why...it just really suprises me.
When I did have a phone conversation I was very mature and polite it's the way I was raised.
Kids do say hilarious things on the phone. I love calling someone's house, having their kid answer and when you ask if you can talk to the parent the kid says "yes" but then doesn't go get them, just sits there quietly on the phone. Your son's conversation is a nice view into what they are really thinking in their little heads!
woah, woah, woah please don't tell me a 7 year old has his own cell phone! That is completely ridiculous! I didn't get my first cell phone until I was 15 (and only because I went to a private school that was far from my house) and I personally think any younger than that is way too young. I don't mean to sound judgmental and I don't know the circumstances as to why he has one I just think it is kind of weird.
That's a little young, don't you think?
I didn't get my cell phone until I reached my freshman year of high school and started to actually gain a lot of freedom. I was mature enough by then, and my parents made me keep track of the minutes I used and everything.I have the booklet with the phone calls and how long they were.
and then they allowed me to get texting when I was sixteen years old.
Seven is far too young for him to have a cell phone.
I see young kids all the time having cell phones. Unless you plan on letting him go out all night, there's no reason why he should have one.
WOAH. I don't know why the freak every comment here is badgering about the kid having a phone. Not only is it NO ONE'S business how she raises her children unless she is endangering or neglecting them BUT...
Everyone is citing when they got their cell phones ... but here's the thing: YES, for people who make up the vast majority of the blogging demographic: late teens, twenties, for them, cell phones were becoming common in the late nineties; yes, most of us were 14, 15,16, but you know what? my parents got their cell phones the same year my big sister did. (She was sixteen.) My baby sister got one the same year I did (and man did I rant about that xD) when I was 14 or so and she was 11. Cell phones become cheaper and more common every day.
We live in a busy, dangerous world. Little kids now have their days packed with activities, and if a mom decides she wants her son to be able to talk to her, yes, even in the middle of soccer practice or while walking home from school, who's business is that? Y'all need to go find something to picket to get rid of all this excess energy, LOL.
On the topic of little kid conversations: I never learned any phone skills. xD Which is why texting and blogging is where it's at. :)
Wow ya'll jump alot! Sheesh more junk goes into children's ears from your televisions and movie choices and at the local playgrounds.
My lil sisters 4 and 6 have pretend cell phones and wow do they ever love to talk!
They make up total conversations, or act out their favorite kids movies and pretend they are characters talking to eachother.
My lil sisters love calling me on my cell phone, just to chat, and love talking to my friends when they call me.
I love your posts, they are refreshing. Sounds like your son has a great vocabulary, probably gets it from his Mommy lol
Hope
well i got my cell phone when i was five igot it before my older sister what do yall think about that????????.......................
Mama Bee is a great mom from what I know.
That conversation was funny and I liked how you asked him to apologize for being rude. LOL. He probably didn't know he was being rude and his friend probably went to go play with his toys immediately after your son hung up on him without even feeling offended. HAHA.
My question is why did you let a seven year old have his own cell phone?
My oldest got her first cell phone when she was just 9. We got it for her so that she could call me or her dad if she needed us when she was away from home. She's always been very responsible with it, and it's made us feel a lot better about letting her participate in activities (such as drama) where we would drop her off and pick her up afterwards. When her younger brother turned 10, he started using the phone, too. If anyone is going to be away from home, they take the cell with them. Then I can feel comfortable calling them anytime without wondering if I'm interrupting something (for instance if my mom, who's a real estate agent, takes one of the kids with her on a showing). -- Just my two cents, sticking up for the Mamabee. If Littlebee's parents want him to have a cell, for whatever reason, it's their responsibility and as long as they see to it, no one has the right to criticize.
Now, to the original question -- my older kids aren't so much fun to eavesdrop on when on the phone, but the younger one's sure are! I love to let my 7 year old answer my phone, just to see what he's going to say. You can never tell what he's going to come up with. It's almost as much fun as when my best friend's 10 year old son answers her phone. He talks and talks, and never hears one single word I say to him. Then, in the middle of my sentence he just goes "OK, here's Mama!" and hands her the phone. Then I hear "Ethan, who is it? -- Ethan -- ETHAN!!" "Yes, Mama?" "Who's on the phone?" "I don't know!" "Well, what did they say?" "umm, something about . . .I'm not sure, they didn't hang up yet." "What!?! -- Hello..." That boy's always good for a laugh!
while i do not think its a great idea for children to have cell phones, sometimes they can be useful. ie the pre-programmed children's phones where they can only call 4 numbers.
my friend's daughter has had one since she was 5, and I remember her first call to me. "Mama! I have Pooh on my feet!" She was giggling like a crazy child and then hung up. I am sitting there looking at my phone going "um what?" So I called her father (little info.... I am not her bio-mom, her mom walked out when she was 3 days old and I was her stand in for the first 6 years of her life.. still am and she is almost 12) and asked what was going on. He had bought her Winnie the Pooh rubber boots, and she thought it was the funniest thing to announce to everyone she could that she had Pooh on her feet.
Oh I love that child!
I still do not have a cell and the likelihood of me ever getting one of my children one is next to none.. but also being a foster parent, if my foster children birth family gives them one AND They pay the bills, I will happily let the child use it, provided it is done appropriately.
My son uses Skype to talk to his grandparents (they're in Germany). Well, my husband sets up skype and my son sings songs to his grandparents and shows them how well he can count (he is almost 2 years old...). It's hilarious to me, because he sings Dutch children's songs to his German grandparents, who do not understand a word... but they still say "good job!!"