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Margaret, welcome to the program.

Hi, how are you?

Good, Margaret. How can I help?

Okay, thank you very much for taking my call.

I'm a 45-year-old mother of a 17-year-old boy, and by every definition he's been a really good kid all growing up.

He's a hard worker.

He's made great choices, the whole bit.

Throughout his years, we have been very careful with phones, and he didn't get to have a phone until he was a freshman in high school.

As a sophomore, we figured out that the high schools make it really difficult not to have

some sort of a different phone that we provided.

And so we gave him a smartphone that was very, very dumb down.

It's never been a problem. This year, gave him a smartphone that was very, very done down. It's never been a

problem. This year, he's a senior heading out to college, and he came to me and said, you know,

I'm really getting left out of a lot of different things because I'm not on. Like what? Like what?

What is he getting locked out of?

That's important to his future.

Sure.

It's just like all of his friends would go and do things and the way that they communicate

is on a social media app versus text messaging.

I'm sorry.

Answer my question and have your son answer the question.

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