Now, don't get me wrong here, I am not all hardcore and shit. I can't have in depth conversation about which flash player is better or whether you should buy the new Treo. I am more of a look-at-the-pictures kind of girl. If I see something cool on there, I'll read about it then let my mouth fall open when I see the price. After I have drooled and gasped, I file it in the folder in my brain labeled "Stuff to buy on ebay in three years." But, every once in awhile, I run across something truly cool that I think about buying sooner (say six months, when the market has decreased and they have their first sale). Today was one of those days.
Now, with me having three daughters, I am already into the world of "Mommy, when can I have a cell phone?" This cracks me up when my girls ask because when I was about four years older than either of them, I just wanted my own phone line in my room. Cell phones were still so expensive and... big. My parents didn't have one and the lust for one was never really present. I was even late getting one last year since everyone and their grandmother's dog seemed to be chatting on theirs in public while I still saddled up to the pay phone should the need to call home arise.
These days, my eight year old is asking me when she can have one. Why in the hell would she need a cell phone? She barely uses the home phone. She has yet to hit that point of wanting to talk to all of her friends all the time. I am so dreading that time - when parental controls have to be set up for the internet and cell phone minutes have to be carefully tabulated. I know I did it. I was on our home phone for hours and hours and hours. I was very girl that way. In fact... kind of still am.
Ok, but I got waaaaaaaaayy off course here. The reason for this entire rant was merely so I could plug a cool phone I saw on Gizmodo. The Tictalk.
This is exactly the kind of phone I intend to get my daughters when they reach an age where I feel they are responsible enough to own one.
The hype:
*Safety, Fun & Learning
*Makes calls only to approved phone numbers
*Receives calls only from approved phone numbers
*Monitors minutes used
*Allows parent to reward child with additional minutes
*Enables interactive text messages from parent
*Sends personalized reminders
*Five educational games from LeapFrog
*Stopwatch
Anyway, I thought it was cool :)
~K
