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Like many of today's children, 13-year-old Gregory wanted for Christmas shiny new gadget - the best it can do to get the baby. He dreamed about the iPhone 5, and he got it. But with the phone, he received a contract from his mother in which she prescribed conditions for the use of this popular gadget now.
Why is it interesting to you? Because Gregory mom tells him about the obvious earlier things that we forget the last time, making the phone the center of everything that happens to us.
Dear Gregory!
Merry Christmas! Now you've become a proud iPhone owner. Ochumet! You're a good and responsible 13-year-old boy and you deserve this gift. But the acceptance of this gift entails the adoption of rules and regulations. Please carefully read the following contract. I hope you understand: my duty - to grow you educated and healthy young man who would be useful in society and will coexist with the technologies and not to depend on them. Failure to comply with the following list of items will lead to a cessation of iPhone ownership.
I'm afraid I love you and I look forward to share with you a few millions of text messages in the days that followed.
1. It is my phone. I bought it. I paid for it. I lend it to you.
2. I will always know the password.
3. If it rings, lift the handset. This is a phone. Say "hello", do not forget your manners. Never dare to ignore the call, if the screen says "Mom" or "Dad." Never.
4. Give the phone to one of his parents is clearly at 19:30 in the school day and at 21:00 on weekends. It will be turned off at night and turned on at 7:30 am.
5. The phone is not picked up in the school. Talk to people in person. This is a useful life skill. * Abbreviations days, trips and extracurricular activities will require separate consideration.
6. If it falls into the toilet, broken to pieces on the ground or disappear to nowhere, you will be responsible for the purchase of spare parts and paying for repairs. Trimmed lawn stranger, and build up a babysitter, put aside some money from birthdays. It will happen one day, and you have to be ready for it.
7. Do not use the technology to lie, cheat or mislead the other person. Do not participate in conversations that offend others.
8. Do not send messages, emails, and do not talk through this device is that you can not say in person.
9. Do not send messages, emails, and do not say anything to anyone, you would not tell them if their parents in the room. Censoring to himself.
10. No porn. Look on the Internet the information that you could share with me openly. If you have a question about something, ask about the other person - it is better either me or dad.
11. Unplug it, translates into a silent mode, get out of sight in public places. Especially in restaurants, in movies, or when you communicate with another person. You - not a boor; do not let the iPhone to change it.
12. Do not send or receive pictures of intimate parts of the body, or someone or another's intimate parts of the body. Do not laugh at this. Once you want to do it, despite his high intelligence. It is risky and can ruin your life. It's always a bad idea. Cyberspace is huge and much stronger than you. You will be very hard to make disappear something similar - including a bad reputation.
13. Do not make billions of photos and videos. There is no need to document everything. Enjoy life and experiences. They will be stored in your memory forever.
14. Sometimes you leave your phone at home and feel confident. He - not a living being and not a part of you. Learn to live without it. Be stronger than the fear to miss anything.
15. Download a new or classical music, or something different from what they listen to millions of your peers. Your generation has hitherto unimaginable access to music. Use it to the fullest. Expand your horizons.
16. Play in the "word" or puzzles from time to time.
17. Look at the world with wide eyes. Look out the window. Listen to the birds singing. Take a walk. Talk to a stranger. Think about anything without resorting to using Google.
18. Once you go wrong. I'll take your phone. We sit down and talk about it. We'll start all over again. You and I - we're constantly learning. I - on your team. We participate with you in this together.
I hope that you agree to these terms. Most of the lessons described here apply not only to the iPhone, but also to life in general. You grow in the fast and ever-changing world. It is both delicious and tempting. Believe his strong mind and a huge heart in place of any machine. I love you. I hope that you will get pleasure from his amazing new iPhone. Merry Christmas!
Mama.
Use these contracts with your children and help them understand what to you seems obvious, but so hard to understand them today who have grown up in the digital mobile world.
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