Landline Phone, Not Cell Phones

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Mom Reveals To Kids They’re Shopping For Landline Phone, Not Cell Phones

Two siblings learned that a shopping trip for new phones was actually to buy the old fashion kind, a landline phone. Parker Schultz, 9, and his 10-year-old sister Paisley were really upset. Their mother, Courtney, made the unconventional call. Courtney says the landline phones still allow her kids to have plenty of conversations with friends. The family is part of a new trend where parents worried about what cell phones could do to their kids' mental health, say “no” to cell phones.


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Jazzy1 said:
Mom Reveals To Kids They’re Shopping For Landline Phone, Not Cell Phones

Two siblings learned that a shopping trip for new phones was actually to buy the old fashion kind, a landline phone. Parker Schultz, 9, and his 10-year-old sister Paisley were really upset. Their mother, Courtney, made the unconventional call. Courtney says the landline phones still allow her kids to have plenty of conversations with friends. The family is part of a new trend where parents worried about what cell phones could do to their kids' mental health, say “no” to cell phones.


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Good idea.

I still use my landline, but I'm told that they are to be phased out..... I'll use mine until the very last day, then I'll learn how to do smoke signals. 😊
 
I received an info letter from AT&T yesterday, to inform me what I had heard prior, and they are not replacing copper wire
for landlines, going to fiber only or whatever, they say to call
ATT for more info....This means if I lose my landline connection
with att I will also lose the Emergency button system I currently
have, because it is not set up to work on wireless....bummer....
 
I ditched the landline about fifteen years ago and gradually ditched the habit of talking on the telephone.

I live in a world of texters and rarely say more than a few words on an actual telephone call other than to confirm an appointment.

It’s not better or worse just different than the preferred method of communication that I grew up with.

I do admit that I miss hearing the voices of the people that are most important to me.
 
AT&T and Spectrum cut us off landlines about six months ago. We had to go buy our first cell phones and I still can barely work mine. My longwinded friend usely talks for about an hour and by then my hand is cramped from trying to hold on to that little cell phone and my ear hurts from jamming it against the phone, trying to hear. The receiver on a landline phone is perfectly designed to hold as it curves around our faces. Why did we give that up?
 
I wish we still had a land line. The super short version: Had an on going problem with it, and it wasn't fixed. Last Oct when I reported the phone still wasn't working properly I was connected with the person who had been here the day before. This person was extremely abusive, so I decided then and there since it was an intermittent problem to see it run it's course to total failure. I'd been keeping track of the dead times, which was regular like clockwork over a 24 hour period. That happened in late Aug or early Sept.

I wasn't upset that it wasn't repaired, the problem would be difficult to find, but the abuse and being told it was all my fault went so far over the line that should this person be sent to work on it again ( 33% possibility), I simply don't trust myself around him and went to cell only. That isn't the best choice for where I live, but better than an unreliable land line.
 
Jazzy1 said:
Mom Reveals To Kids They’re Shopping For Landline Phone, Not Cell Phones

Two siblings learned that a shopping trip for new phones was actually to buy the old fashion kind, a landline phone. Parker Schultz, 9, and his 10-year-old sister Paisley were really upset. Their mother, Courtney, made the unconventional call. Courtney says the landline phones still allow her kids to have plenty of conversations with friends. The family is part of a new trend where parents worried about what cell phones could do to their kids' mental health, say “no” to cell phones.
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I think the mother was deceitful by giving the children a false impression on what they were actually going to be shopping for. The children have seemingly adjusted to the disappointment. They were a little young to have their own phones. There are many professional opinions on the ideal age when a child or teen should be allowed to have their own phone. In scanning through those, most agree on middle school age (12-14).
 
I keep both. A lot of my friends that I was in the service with had my home number when I lived in Virginia, but now it has changed, so I’m not sure how to get my new number to them. It will probably be online in a few months. Maybe on Whitepages.
 
I got rid of my land line about 7-8 years ago, when I was being driven crazy by dozens of marketing and scam calls. Somehow, there was a lot less of that on my cell phone.

I think this was a silly thing for this woman to do. Cell phones are really not just "phones," they are much more than that. My family is constantly in touch via texting and email, rarely calling each other to actually have a phone conversation. Part of the reason is that many of us live in different time zones.

The phone is actually a little computer. I google things all the time, and get all sorts of information, entertainment, etc. Those things are not available on a land line, as far as I know.
 
They are phasing out copper landlines in my neighborhood. Choice of converting it to a fiber optic line or losing service.
I quit my landline years ago. Kept the number though.
 
I have Fibre optic landline phones...... and my Iphone..

I actually prefer the landline for calls, it's much more comofrtable doesn't drop signal... but... because of my Internet/TV/Phone package to get the most affordable deal... this year.. my landline costs 25p per minute plus tax to make a call.. so I no longer make calls on it.. just receive them which is free.

It means I have t make all my outgoing calls on my Iphone, which is a PITA because sometimes I have to walk all around the house while making a call to get the best signal

Apprantly our landines are being phased out in the next 2 years.. I'm not looking forward to that...
 
dusty said:
I have a non corded landline and would never have a cell.
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oops - I didn't realize that. Then the suggestion to record that weird neighbor coming to your door wasn't an option. BTW, I hope that situation is now resolved. I haven't been back to that thread for a few days.
 
Cellphones put their users constantly on call, constantly available, and as much as that can be liberating or convenient, it can also be an overwhelming burden. When there are people walking down the sidewalk, heads down, on their cell, or driving while talking, and so on, one must ask: is this life or are the sheep making the herder rich?

I don't think it is freeing to pay a lot of money each month, or to need a "plan" to be able to talk to someone at any time, anywhere.
 
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