ELaurie
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When EK was that age, we got her a Virgin Mobile phone. We paid $15 for the phone at Circuit City. There was no contract, and at that time, we paid $20 every 3 months to add minutes to her account. I think phone calls were 18 cents per minute, and texts were 5 cents each. She had the phone for a couple of years, and it was perfect for making a few calls a month and texting her friends occasionally. We allowed her to have the phone as a trial run to see if she could be responsible with it. She proved herself, and after a year or two, we added her to our family plan on Verizon.
Lots of great suggestions here - thank you!
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I got a prepaid T-Mobile phone ($20, very basic model) and 1000 minutes ($100). Because I bought 1000 minutes, they last for a year. If you don't use them all, and add minutes before the year is over, then all of the unused minutes and the new minutes roll over for another entire year.
I don't use my phone much, and am coming up on the 2 year anniversary of my original purchase. I added $10 last year to roll over the existing balance. $110 for two years' worth of cell service isn't bad.
This isn't a data plan, just phone and text. Texts are 10c each.
This sounds great - Thank you!
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My 12 yr old has this phone ($30) and 100 minutes per month for $10 through Tracfone. It works great for him. The minutes roll over so he's got over 700 on his phone right now.
This sounds perfect - Thank you!
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Just got my dss14 straighttalk.com phone.
Phone was $10 (there are some that are free). $30 per month-1000 minutes/1000 texts and I think 30 MB of data. The part I like is no contract and when you are done you are done...no overages.
Edited to change data amount.
I like the idea of no contract too. We would prefer not to give him access to a data plan at this point, although the idea of being able to track where he is on my GPS is attractive (not that we are concerned that he won't be where he is supposed to be at this point).
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I have Net10. You can get the phone with minutes at Target, it basically works out that the phone is free.
I pay $30 every 60 days for 300 minutes. Additional minutes are 10 cents per minute, texts are 5 cents.
Thanks Anita. This could work for him :)
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DH, who never uses his phone, has a t-mobile pay-as-you-go, which he likes because the minutes expire in 90 days vs 30, but it really is pay as you go-everything is subtracted from that account, every text, every call, every received message, and if you do any data at all, it costs you, so it might not be the best plan for a tween.
This could work for him. How much are the calls / text messages? What's the minimum number of minutes you can buy every 90 days?
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Ds almost 12 would dearly love to have his own cell phone :tongue_smilie:
This is a purchase he would make himself; he will also be responsible for any associated fees.
He'll use it primarily to let me know he has arrived safely at his destination, or that he is headed home after leaving friend's house.
He would also like to have the ability to text.
ETA: We could add him to our family plan for $20 per month - but $240 a year is too expensive for his level of usage. I anticipate that there will be months when he has no phone calls at all; even in a high usage month, it's hard to imagine that he would have more than 4 or 5 phone calls or a dozen text messages.
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What? There are other homeschool forums???:lol:
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Great news, Dawn. I didn't respond to your original post, but I sure hope you have the time of your life on your trip!!
I'm thrilled for you Dawn. Have a wonderful trip..
And I just gotta' say - this is the cutest "smiley" I ever saw :tongue_smilie:
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Here's a link to a great post for dads (or moms) :001_smile:
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from the author is that the errors were typographical in nature, not inaccuracies in the content of the text. The errors have since been corrected; however, if you have a text with typographical errors RS4K will replace it for you free of charge.
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So glad to know her name - I've been praying for her :grouphug:
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if you install geothermal. We looked into it at one point; I don't know if the credit is still in effect. At the time, I think the tax credit was about one third of the total cost of the system.
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Melon, cantaloupe, berries - colorful, healthy, easy and delicious :001_smile:
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I planned every week in detail, including all of the optional art projects, science experiments, history resources that I might want to include for a given week.
I knew that if I didn't list them, they wouldn't get done, because I would forget to include them later.
However, I also knew that it was unrealistic to do everything on my list.
Each week on Monday, I reviewed the list, and made adjustments based upon what my priorities for the week ahead, and based upon what I thought it would be realistic to accomplish.
If I really wanted the kids to do an art project, I crossed off an optional biography for history. If it seemed like ds 11 needed to spend more time on writing, I crossed off the optional science experiment.
My planner page is set up in such a way that I can shift when we do things, as long as I check off the required number of boxes by the end of the week :)
For example, if my goal is to do 3 lessons in FLL, and my plan is to do them Monday - Thursday (we save Fridays for field trips, science experiments, art projects, history projects, and to tie up loose ends from the week) I just make sure that we do three lessons sometime on those days.
It's the right combination of detailed planning with built in flexibility for us :001_smile:
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this was my understanding from PHP staff at the conference in Cincinnati this spring. Another poster just sent me a PM to say that she had dinner with SWB last week, and discussed publication dates for WWS with her. I'll try to get some clarification about it if I can and post again.
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before school starts in the fall, even if a hard copy is not available yet.
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and it's my new favorite game :001_smile:
It has just the right combination of chance and strategy, IMO, which makes it fun for players of a wide range of skills and abilities. The original game can be played by four players' if more than four want to play you will need an expansion set. The game board and pieces are of high quality (as they should be, for the prioce). I delayed purchasing it because it's an expensive game, but we are really enjoying it.
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recalling the sequence of events in a story, remembering the important facts and including an appropriate level of detail in narrations are important skills. My dc did this at that age too.
However, I also think you should encourage him to condense his narration to one or two sentences before you write it down for him. Finding the central idea in a passage is an important skill as well :001_smile:
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I'll let you know when we decide to meet again :)
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Very cool :001_smile:
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Here's a link to an incredibly helpful website for parenting / ADD issues
in General Education Discussion Board
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I learned about this website here on the boards, when someone posted a link to it. I've been following their blog ever since, and listening to the radio program and CDs. We're seeing some truly amazing changes in our family (you can read about them in the comments section on the blog).
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