My daughter, future miss teen Idaho

Yeah, they have all that.

I like to be able to call the oldest when he is out and telling him to come home.

Also like taking it away -- zip -- when he acts up.

 

They do have the simple phones with three or four options. I think you can have mom, dad, home, 911 etc programmed into them.

We were hesitant to get her one, but she came up with the plan to earn the phone and we thought it was reasonable. She's got a semi-fancy phone. It was only $20 more than the most simple phone (which would have been free in adding the extra line), so we splurged a little and got her an LG Chocolate. She's free to call her friends which was kind of the point in her wanting a phone.

she's had the phone for a few months now and we've had no problems. But I'm really glad we turned off the text function.

she actually did have a zero in algebra once, but that was because she left her name off the assignment. We kept the phone for a day, she went to school and found the assignment in the no-name pile and got the points added. She came home, we looked up her scores online and she had her phone a couple of minutes later.

 

Forgot her name?