verizon has a little lime green phone that only the thing to have for kids in this situation. it can only be used in emergencies and family. it has like only 4 to 5 people that can be called. let the child only have it during the fathers visitaion. not used for anything else. I am thinking my self to try this because the father wont allow my 10 year old to call me on the house phone. she has to use her sisters cell, but she isnt always around when 10 yr old wants to call. its important that the children keep in touch and feel that they can at all times.

In the early days of our separation I know that when I would call to talk to my daughter it was difficult to get a response on the other end of the phone from my spouse; and, of course, this would frustrate me. I would attempt to reason with her that answering, or returning, the missed call, is a consideration that each of us should extend to the other for our child but not to be used as a ploy for punishment or intrusion into the life of one another. The logic did not sit well with her and it was not until I employed the same tactic; thereby, revealing to her on how negatively it impacts on one when you are unable to communicate with your child. I am not talking about excessive communication. I am talking about a minimal routine of good-morning or good-night. My spouse and I are much further along with this learning process to the point in which she becomes annoyed that I rarely call her for any reason with the exception of talking to our daughter. And, oddly enough, I become suspicious of my spouse if it is for any other reason other than the routines that we now have set up for our daughter. Our little girl would love to have her own cellular phone but, at six years of age, I consider her to young to be in this current mode of fashion statement for children. Have you been able to resolve this issue over the past couple of months?

get the kids a cell phone