Take the kid’s phone and lock it in a drawer at night. Problem solved.
As usual, where are the parents?
Why does a kid need a phone in the first place? If you are worried about their safety, get them a phone that can only call you or 911.
My son is 14. We make him leave his phone on the kitchen counter when he goes to bed.
Addicted to texting just like the kid.
I refuse to buy text service on my phone.
I work on PCs for a living, and have lived long enough to see the world evolve from no PCs at all to the handheld devices we use today. I can say the following in complete seriousness and with the surety of experience that I know what I am talking about:
Texting has no value the way society has chosen to use it. It serves no purpose that enriches lives and for a great many is nothing more than a disease. To maintain a civil society there will eventually have to be a backlash against most text use in public. And I don’t mean laws I mean socially accepted behavior. We have to get to the point where even teenagers look at their friend during lunch and say, “Get off that damn thing already, it’s rude!”
Instant Messaging was initally pretty good. I like Yahoo Instant Messenger for example. People you know can send a message. It sits there patiently waiting. You can reply whenever you HAVE TIME. But somewhere along the line... we jumped from it being an aid to our lives, to it BEING our lives.
This kind of paper thin meaningless relationship with people extends to “friend lists.” Same disease. You don’t have 1000 friends. The word “friend” is diminished and damaged by Facebook. They aren’t friends. And even by dictionary definitions they are barely “acquaintences.”
“Strangers” is a better word for 950 of the 1000 people on your friends list that are getting the gritty details of your entire life.
Think hard on it. If you are old enough, think back 20 years. Is this really better? You know it isn’t. I’m no luddite. I love tech. But out of control texting is just not good.
I use my son’s cell phone as an alarm clock...no more overnight texts!!!!