Teenagers and Cell Phones

I don't know how we have survived this far having raised four teenagers. Thomas is going on 18 and Abigail will be 13 on her birthday this coming Valentine's Day. It is a little sad tho because that means our six children are almost all grown up. We did the unthinkable and got Abigail a cell phone for this past Christmas. You should have heard the groaning and complaining from Thomas and Catherine. "I had to wait until I was . . . to get my own cell phone." For one thing life was different when they were 12 years old. Now that Abigail is in the 8th grade she sometimes goes to friends homes to work on projects and it is so much easier to keep up her with her own phone. I don't have to do to her what I put her Dad through all those years ago when cell phones were unheard of. I would look up the number where he was going and call and ask the clerk to page Perry Coghlan. He just hated to hear his name over the loud speaker. Last summer I'm sure I drove Thomas crazy like his dad when I needed to talk to him and called all his friends to find him. Even tho we did without them in the past it is so much easier with them.:)