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Copied written Jan 2, 2013 GOOD PRACTICE to have with your kids."Greg Hoffman is a kid who just got an iPhone from his parents. His mom, Janell Hoffman, wrote these [slightly edited] rules for its use:👉1. It is my phone. 🔹️I bought it. 🔹️I pay for it. 🔹️I am loaning it to you. 🔹️Aren't I the greatest?👉2. I will always know the password.👉3. If it rings, answer it. 🔹️It is a phone. 🔹️Say hello, use your manners. 🔹️Do not ever ignore a phone call if the screen reads "Mom" or "Dad". Not ever.👉4. Hand the phone to one of your parents promptly at 7:30pm every school night & every weekend night at 9:00pm. 🔹️It will be shut off for the night and turned on again at 7:30am. 🔹️If you would not make a call to someone's land line, wherein their parents may answer first, then do not call or text. 🔹️Listen to those instincts and respect other families like we would like to be respected.👉5. It does not go to school with you. Have a conversation with the people you text in person. It's a life skill. 👉6. If it falls into the toilet, smashes on the ground, or vanishes into thin air, you are responsible for the replacement costs or repairs. 👉7. Do not use this technology to lie, fool, or deceive another human being. 🔹️Do not involve yourself in conversations that are hurtful to others. 🔹️Be a good friend first or stay the hell out of the crossfire.🔹️8-9. Do not text, email, or say anything through this device you would not say in person.👉10. No porn. 👈👉11. Turn it off, silence it, put it away in public, especially in a restaurant, at the movies, or while speaking with another human being. 🔹️You are not a rude person🔹️ do not allow the cellphone to change that.👉12. Do not send or receive pictures of your private parts or anyone else's private parts. 🔹️Don't laugh. 🔹️Someday you will be tempted to do this despite your high intelligence. 🔹️It is risky and could ruin your teenage/college/adult life. 🔹️It is always a bad idea. 🔹️Cyberspace is vast and more powerful than you. 🔹️And it is hard to make anything of this magnitude disappear -- including a bad reputation.👉13. Don't take a zillion pictures and videos. 🔹️There is no need to document everything. Live your experiences. 🔹️They will be stored in your memory for eternity.14. Leave your phone home sometimes and feel safe and secure in that decision. 🔹️It is not alive or an extension of you. Learn to live without it. 🔹️Be bigger and more powerful than FOMO -- fear of missing out.👉15. Download music that is new or classic or different than the millions of your peers that listen to the same exact stuff. 🔹️Your generation has access to music like never before in history. 🔹️Take advantage of that gift. 🔹️Expand your horizons.👉16. Play a game with words or puzzles or brain teasers every now and then.👉17. Keep your eyes up. 🔹️See the world 🔹️happening around you. 🔹️Stare out a window. 🔹️Listen to the birds. 🔹️Take a walk. 🔹️Talk to a stranger. 🔹️Wonder without googling.18. You will mess up. 🔹️I will take away your phone. 🔹️We will sit down and talk about it. 🔹️We will start over again. 🔹️You & I, we are always learning.🔹️ I am on your team. 🔹️We are in this together."