<p>Average over 2700 a MONTH. That’s about 6 every waking hour. <shakes head=“”></shakes></p>
<p>Both of my girls are around 1000-1500.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s a lot and it used to scare me more. But when you are using a text in place of a conversation, it adds up quickly. My son might text 5 times in the car on the way to school (I’m driving 
) just to arrange a place to meet someone at school.</p>
<p>That’s nothing - my daughter had over 5000 on our last bill… guess she is getting our money’s worth on the $15/month unlimited texting…</p>
<p>I just checked D2 (15 year old) usage. I was looking to see if she was texting during school. Lucky for her, the record shows she texted before 8 am, around 12 and after 2:30. But she could text 3-5 messages in one minute. There was a chain of 30+ messages in a matter of 10 min, so I guess she and whoever were having a very deep (heated) discussion.</p>
<p>My son (college Soph) averaged between 5,000 and 6,000 per month this summer while he was living at home and is girlfriend was several states away.</p>
<p>Should we compare how much our kids text to how much we post on CC?</p>
<p>D averaged 12,000 a month over the summer.</p>
<p>I wonder if it impacts their social development.</p>
<p>I’ve read articles about how cell phones and texting limit new social contacts when freshmen arrive on campus, but my experience with my daughter suggests that this concern is overblown.</p>
<p>My d is as keen to make live friends at college as she would have been in the “dark ages” before texting and cell phones.</p>
<p>D1 averaged 400 a month and D2 barely used it, less than 100 month. I guess I would call them text “lite”.</p>
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<p>holy crap! :eek:</p>
<p>My parents use to think my 200/month texting in high school was excessive…</p>
<p>During High school my D seldom used txt maybe 10 or 15 a week but in college it has gone to 250 a week so far. I asked why and her answer was that in High school they all had the same timetables basically, at least start and finish and they were generally in the same building. While at college the only way to make meal, gym, practice or study plans and know they will get it is by text messaging. She makes a good point in that if she sends a txt and even if the other person has theirs turned off they will get it as soon as they turn it on.</p>
<p>Then there are the secret teen sexting codes. Designed so parents don’t have a clue.</p>
<p>Texting: One of the reasons parents have lost control of their kids. The kids are always living in their ‘group world’. Is is also a contributing factor in low academic performance and driving accidents.</p>
<p>Parents should get devices that are incapable of texting…(Now every one can flame me)</p>
<p>I"m with you Simba. It can be a big time waster and some of my daughter’s friends are doing this “sexting” as well. My kids have limits on it built into our phone plan.</p>
<p>Remember, every incoming and outgoing text is counted. So six texts every hour is probably 3 in / 3 out. </p>
<p>Personally, I find texting to be a wonderful way to keep tabs on my D’s. When D2 is driving somewhere, she’ll send a text when she arrives. Nothing elaborate, just “made it”. </p>
<p>On our recent wireless bill, D1 had 1800 texts, D2 had 4100 texts, and I had 1000. (Most of mine are “tweets”) </p>
<p>We get our money’s worth on the shared unlimited message plan!</p>
<p>Each is equally distracting from being in the here and now. Like a class or often, driving, etc.</p>