My buddy Teds girlfriend's teenage daughter does this. Ted tries to disipline her,but his girlfriend always lets her daughter have her way. She is sometimes still on the phone past 11 o'clock on school nights. Her grades in school suffer terribly because of this. Ted got the phone bill once, and she racked up over 1000 calls in one month. He said only about 4 of those calls were his. If i was Ted, i would be placing a time limit on that phone which would not allow any phone chat past 9:30 PM on school nights. This child needs disipline now. She does not need to always have her way. This is preparation for her to get her ready for the real world. Me and Ted look at this topic differently than his girlfriend does. Maybe because telephone chat is a normal habit for females, and we look at it differently since we were social turds in high school. Ted now had his phone shut off for some time due to money issues. I guess it was suppose to be turned back on, but time goes by. He said he hardly misses it.
