Welcome back to Mama Mystery.

I am your host, Kelly.

And I am your co-host, Austin.

And today's episode is going to be a little bit different.

We are shifting gears a little bit, but let me tell you,

if you are a parent, you're going to want to listen to this episode. And if you have a kid with a

smartphone, you may want them to listen to this as well, but I will let you decide that for

yourself. So a few months ago, I wrote a Facebook post about how discouraging it can be as a parent

today, especially when so many kids

have phones and no limits on how they use them. Our oldest kids are 11 and 12 years old, and nearly

all of their friends already have phones. And on those phones, they are on everything. They're texting

nonstop. They're on Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Roblox, you name it. At our

house, we do have a phone. It's technically an iPhone, but it's a home phone. The kids can use it

if we are gone and they need to reach us or if they're out with friends and might need a ride or

something, but otherwise their use on it is very limited. We just call it the kids phone, and it's got a shared phone that we limit. Yeah, and we keep it in our room. So they have to ask if they want to use it. They have to ask if they want to check up on the texts or whatever. Because I don't want the kids texting at 10 o'clock at night, you know, or free for all with the phone at nine o'clock.

Exactly. There's no social media on the phone. There's no games. It's literally just texting and it has

the capability to like FaceTime with their friends within reason though. We do have limits.

But just yesterday in the span of like two hours, one of the group texts had over 200 messages in it

and there was another time that I opened up the phone and there was like 400 yeah nearly 500

I think it was like 490 something messages and it was the other day when I looked it was just

drama it was girls fighting they over things that don't even make sense.

It's all just nonsense.

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