Daughter loves texting.
Wife and I have been conservative in our mobile phone use, which parlays into our choice of service plans. Once Wife got her own iPhone (instead of the old crappy phone we once had), then her friends learned about it, Wife started to receive and thus send lots of text messages. The same happened to me, I blame Jay. 🙂 Originally we did AT&T’s minimum 200 msg/month plan, but I quickly realized that as each month passed we got closer and closer to our limit.
I caved and went for the Unlimited plan. It was only $5/month more, so why not.
I’m glad I did.
Daughter LOVES texting.
My father-in-law had a triple bypass surgery a couple of weeks ago. Wife and Kiddos have travelled up to be there, help out, etc.. I would go, but there’s work and well… Sasha is still a high-maintenance dog (we’re working on this, another topic for another time). So since they are gone and I am home, Daughter misses her Daddy.
She makes up for it by texting.
She uses Wife’s iPhone and folks… I’ll tell you this girl can type. I think texting is improving her spelling, her typing speed, everything. Plus, I think it’s great that she finds it a fun way to be close to Dad even when she can’t be close to Dad.
At this point what I want is an iPhone service plan that doesn’t cost me an arm and a leg. 😉
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Good luck with that.
At least she IS spelling properly, I don’t have a smart phone and I have to admit that when I text I tend to cheat and use all kinds of shortened words!
Every kid is strong is something, every kid is weak in something… in general, but also specifically in school subjects. One of Daugther’s weak points is spelling… probably our fault, because we always encouraged her to “just spell”, even if it was inventive spelling. She never lets things like “correct spelling” get in her way, so she’ll be correct phonetically, but it may not jive with Doc Webster. It’s good, but yet… it’s not good. 🙂 So that this provides a lot of chances to have to spell/write and for an adult’s eyes to correct, it’s great! She’s come a long way in the past some years, and texting just gives us another avenue.
Now there is the issue of texting spelling and well… I let it slide to some degree. I mean, “luv u 2” is acceptable, but only because I know she knows “love you too” is proper. 🙂
Why not just FaceTime or videochat with yahoo? Then your data plan can get hammered, too!
I don’t know. She’s enamoured with texting so go figure.
But FaceTime won’t happen until we get iPhone 4’s anyways.