1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of tell You what, Hey, dude, 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: you're a parent? Ever run this by? 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 2: Now? 4 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: You're see I run all this stuff by now your parents. 5 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: She's twenty months old or so, Little Lena, yep, so 6 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: this You're not in this boat yet, but this is 7 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: kind of genius. Meet Kyle and Meg and their first grader, 8 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 1: little Maddie. They joined some other parents in signing a 9 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 1: wait until eighth pledge. Anybody know what that is? I'll 10 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: wait until eighth pledge to delay giving their children smartphones. Okay, 11 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: This past Christmas, Colin Meg surprise Maddie with a landline 12 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:38,599 Speaker 1: phone in first grade, and the group of parents are 13 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: actually they represent third graders, so she's just in the 14 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: first grade, but so many of her friends are in 15 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: the third grade, so it's really mostly third graders doing it. 16 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: But the phone allows calls from approved contacts and it 17 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 1: doesn't have internet access at all. It's basically it's it's 18 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: just a landline. And Mattie's mom says, you know, we 19 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: wanted her, you know, her first experience with having a 20 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: phone to be something pretty simple, to feel simple, and 21 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: something very intentional, not overwhelming. She can call Grandma, Grandpa, 22 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 1: get her friends can call. But that said, no telemarketers, 23 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: nobody can call this thing. It's set up as a 24 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: landline for their first grader. What do you guys think 25 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: about this? Talkback on the iHeartRadio app and she she 26 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: put this video up the mother did of Maddie and 27 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: her landline. I mean, it just totally blew up. And 28 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: parents are praising this thing left and right because the 29 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: kid can be in touch, you know, the lot can 30 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: be in touch and everything, but doesn't have and kind 31 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 1: of up to speed, but doesn't have the all the 32 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: smartphone crap that comes with it and all the social 33 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,119 Speaker 1: media and all the ick and the you know whatever 34 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 1: videos they don't want her to see. 35 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, I absolutely love this. I love the fact that 36 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 3: you can do this and they they don't have this screen, 37 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 3: they don't have the Internet, they don't have like creepers 38 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 3: in like, let's say, if you're playing a game on 39 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 3: your iPad or whatever or the phone, there's maybe some 40 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 3: creepers in the game that kind of are like, hey, 41 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 3: we should talk off of this, and they may not 42 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 3: be who they are. This way, you can control who 43 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 3: can call them, who can get a hold of them. 44 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 3: And then also if you want to take it one 45 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 3: further and ever experienced the internet, you just get dial 46 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 3: up and then that way, she's got to wait to 47 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 3: use the phone. 48 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: And all of the parents say, they all agree, eighth 49 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 1: grade is the great they feel eighth grade is the 50 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:10,959 Speaker 1: grade to get the smartphone because I mean there's a 51 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: lot of sports involved. I mean here in sports well 52 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 1: before that, Yeah, but you got to pick your kid 53 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: up and oh the kid practice was canceled and hey mom, 54 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: I need you know that kind of stuff. There's always 55 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: a way to make the call. 56 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 3: Yeah. They do have those little cell phones that you 57 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 3: can the jitterbugs something like that. It's got four buttons 58 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 3: that you can program that. They only call those numbers. 59 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: Okay, I don't. My mother in law has this phone. 60 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: There's great, big numbers on it. I mean it's just 61 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: it's very simple. 62 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 3: That might just be the vision phone. 63 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: Her site's fine. It's just whatever my wife got her. 64 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: I mean, it works, it works great. She loves it. 65 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: She thinks it's cool. She doesn't do any texting or anything. 66 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: I don't think she does on it. There's any texting 67 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: with it at all. But it's kind of funny. The 68 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: sides of life. You know, the early stage of the 69 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: late stage. I kind of all come together and then 70 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: we clutter it all up in between here. But I 71 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: don't know. What do you think about this? You want 72 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: to drop something on talk back? I think it's kind 73 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 1: of cool. We got a lot of parents listening to 74 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: the show and they want to rush right out and 75 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: get smartphones for some kids, and some are like, nope, chance, 76 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: I'm not going to give my kids a smartphone, not 77 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: until they're forty. 78 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 3: So my sister in law always asks when we're gonna 79 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 3: get Lena's solfhone. I go, she's twenty months. She goes, yeah, 80 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 3: but I want to talk to her, not you guys. 81 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: I go, okay, you might want to wait until she 82 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 1: figures out how to use it, you know what I mean? 83 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: Talk back on the iHeartRadio app. Yeah, drop a thought. 84 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 2: Plandline phone is the way to go. For the kids. 85 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 2: You can just put an insol in their shoe that 86 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 2: you can buy from like Amazon, and get an air 87 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 2: tag to put inside of it. That way you know 88 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: where they're at and don't have to worry about all 89 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 2: the negativity from a cell phone, and they can just 90 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 2: use the school phone to call you. That's what we did. 91 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 2: But I don't think I was tracked. 92 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: Yeah no, well that's pretty cool. Yeah, that's another way 93 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: of looking at it. 94 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 4: I like the idea of a landline as opposed to 95 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 4: a regular cell phone, as the kids will actually talk 96 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 4: to each other instead of looking down and texting. In 97 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:09,119 Speaker 4: today's society, our kids are handed a iPad in kindergarten 98 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 4: to do their score work. 99 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: I know. Isn't that nuts. 100 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 5: I didn't know that. 101 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,839 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, dude, kindergarten. Oh I've even in preschool they've 102 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: got stuff. Wait, I mean in your preschool they don't 103 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 1: have some of the stuff for some of the I 104 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: mean a little bit older kids in Lena on something. 105 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:23,359 Speaker 1: They don't have the iPads and stuff. 106 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 3: Oh no, she's in an in home for daycare. 107 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 1: Oh well, I know, but they could still have something. 108 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: I don't know they wanted to. 109 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 3: Now they're all about playing with Oh they're. 110 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: Just hanging out drinking, smoking cigarettes. Yeah, I got you. 111 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 5: We are family who my husband's a firefighter from Minneapolis, 112 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 5: and we have a landlight at our house. We have 113 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 5: an eight and ten year old and they both use 114 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 5: it to call their friends and family members, and it's 115 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 5: great for them just to get that social part communication. 116 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 5: I feel like a lot of kids are missing that nowadays, 117 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 5: just in general. So I have definitely approven Ours is 118 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 5: actually a landline, not a landline cell phone. So also 119 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 5: in a case of emergency, if somebody the emergency, now. 120 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,119 Speaker 1: Oop, she got cut off. You only get thirty seconds 121 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 1: on talkback. But she made some very good points and 122 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: that's very cool. Yeah yeah, but it everything. It starts 123 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: as a phone with real conversation, enhancing those social skills 124 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: opposed to be awesome. Oh could you imagine that? Can 125 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: you speed those up? Can you, like, I mean, does 126 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 1: it still work? Thanks for listening to this episode of 127 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: I Tell You What. Please rate, review, subscribe, download, share, 128 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 1: and like. Thank you.