Cell Phone Abuse

Due to general over tiredness and moodiness, DH and I sent everyone to bed early last night. G has been complaining of feeling off but we had chaulked that up to her medications side effects (which were changed yesterday), and J was just being his usual "I don't want to eat my vegetables or do the dishes" self. By 8:00 the house was quiet and peaceful so hubby and I settled in to watch a movie or 2.

At 11:30, I heard G get up and start moving around but didn't think anything of it until I heard her talking. I turned down the volume on the TV and realized that she isn't doing her usual early morning talking to herself, she is actually having a conversation! Something told me that she was talking to her guy friend from school although when I've busted her previously for late night phone calls she claims it was with her SD. So I got up and knocked on her door to which her only response was "oh shit". Yep chicka, you are SOO busted.

I asked who she was on the phone with and she replied that it was her friend from school but that she had woken up because her room had gotten too hot (space heater) and she had seen that he had called and had called him back. I told her to shut it down do what she needed to to cool down her room then go back to bed.

This morning I decided to take a look at her phone records. While she doesn't normally use the phone much, her text messaging sent me over the deep end. After I told her to go to bed she sent a text at 4:30 AM and this is not an irregular occurance. 2:30, 3:30, 5:30 am conversations; all on school nights! No wonder she has been overly tired.

Then I found the best part. She has been sending text messages during school hours! I really think not!

I talked to DH about everything this morning. J is an easy fix. He once again loses all of his electronics (made sure DH agreed to ALL of them this time rather then just the Wii). G on the other hand is more complex. First just to get it through her head just how much she has screwed up, she is ground and cannot have friends over or go to visit them after school. Second, she has lost her cell phone for the next week and when she gets it back she will not be allowed to have it during school hours or during sleeping hours.