Saturday, June 29, 2013

No Land Line and a Child Who Starts Talking on the Phone a Lot--What to Do?

Lately my daughter has started talking on the phone.  This would be less surprising if she were a teenager, but she just turned nine.  At any rate, this has prompted several conversations with friends who only have cell phones and are wondering what they will do when their daughter starts talking on the phone a lot.  They are concerned about radiation from the phone affecting their growing children.  So, what is a parent in this situation to do?

Well, one simple solution is to put the phone on speaker so it's not next to the girl's head.  However, as she probably wants her conversations to be more private than that, especially as she grows older, this is probably not a great solution.

There are actually other solutions out there, though they didn't occur to me when I was having my conversations with my friends.  A while back, the hubby and I wanted to turn off our long distance and only use the cells, but I didn't want the hot cell against my head every time I wanted to call long distance.  So, we got a little box device that hooked our cell phone to our land phone via blue tooth.  I can't find the exact model we have, but here are links to three of the ones I found at Amazon:


They work so simply.  The one we have simply requires that we plug the phone into it.  When we want to use it, we connect the cell to it via blue tooth.  Then we pick up the regular phone and dial in a short code before dialing the number we want.  I was even able to insert the code in front of the stored phone numbers on the regular phone and have it work perfectly.  You can have your cell phone plugged into the charger while you use it so the battery doesn't run down.  

However, while I was looking for these devices, I found phones that actually have the blue tooth in them.  Best Buy actually has a section for them in their webstore.  I haven't tried them, but I'm sure they work largely the same way as the other device.  So, if you don't have your land-line anymore or are thinking about cutting your service, there are ways to cut down on your cell to ear time!

1 comment:

  1. No matter where the cellphone is on you, you're going to get the same amount of radiation. The only way to prevent it is to just not have a call phone.

    Also, how well do you know electronics?

    I would suggest getting well versed in it soon because you have two children and they'll be getting older soon.

    If you leave a cellphone plugged in (like with any electronic device) and you continue using it you're going to ruin the battery on it. You only charge the batter when it's low. I'm talking in the 20% range. From there let it charge and than start using it again. It's an inconvenience yes, but prolonging it's life can end up saving you money.

    As far as cellphones go. I'd just get a pair of headsets with a mic attached. It gives her the ability to walk around and still maintain the privacy that she wants.

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