What would you do?

has she tried calling her old number? if so,what happened? if not, why not I mislay my cell all the time and track it with the ring she at least needs to get the number canceled so nobody else can use it.

She does not deserve to have another phone but I think you should go ahead and get another one so you may be able to contact her. I hope she is more responsible with this one.

She doesn't deserve another phone but you do. You know you would worry about her if you couldn't keep in touch. You could buy her a phone and give her the bill for it when she comes home in the holidays and make her pay it,she might be more careful if she's the one out of pocket.

Why can't she support herself? If she is away at University she can do odd jobs to support herself. Mobile phones have gone done in prices. Why don't you ask her to pay for it? She would treasure the value of money and take more care of her things. © ronaldinu 2008

Hi there pike. I know that i am still young and probably not qualified to give parenthood advices but i think that Mike was right about one thing - you should get an inexpensive one for her - i believe that this should teach her to better take care of her things because money don't grow on trees.

omg i sure would not. you sound like my daughter that continuously wastes money on the kids. she cant afford to so she comes back to me for money i hope you can afford it. i wouldnt do it.

If she has lost two within 6 months then that doesn't seem like good odds for getting her another one. Maybe you could tell her to buy her own, then she might look after it a bit better! Surely there are proper telephones at university on which she can call you. Maybe getting her one of those payphone card thingies would cost you less than replacing her mobile every 6 months. If there were no other way of keeping in touch then I would say to get her another one but there are lots of means of communication. You have a computer and internet and I don't doubt that there is internet which she can also use. So I don't think you should get her a new phone. Not immediately at least. Let her see how she feels without one. If she finds it a pain in the behind then she might take more care of a new one. I would also like to mention that my son had a phone for his 7th birthday. He is now almost 9 and the phone is still here, in tact, working, etc. and he is always losing things (usually underneath the clothes he doesn't put away admittedly!) so I don't think your daughter should have a new mobile unless she buys it herself.

This is a difficult one!! You need to be able to trust her....She needs to prove that she can take care of and keep track of her stuff! If I did get her another one I would get her the cheapest phone possible but I seriously don't know if I would buy another one...I think I might make her buy the next one out of her own money!!! ~Heavens~

Hi p1kef1sh, My first question is how upset is she about this? It is understandable that you want to be able to keep in contact with her, but she does have to be responsible. I would probably buy her another, but only after a discussion about about it. Blessings.

Kids are great arn't they for how well they look after things? "easy come, easy go". I have one who does not care too much about stuff and if something is lost or broke thinks it is OK Mum will sort it out! If it was my lad I would be quite cross but as you say when they are away from home being in touch with them is important so I would probably buy him another but I would only buy him a cheap one. If he wants a dearer more upmarket one he would have to find the money for it himself. My sister in law got quite a smart little phone from WH Smith the other day for £15 if that is any help, it has nothing fancy on it but it does the job she wants it for.

I'd be tempted to buy her a new mobile .... but as her Christmas present. Sounds to me as if some insurance might be in order as well!

Hello p1kef1sh, I would encourage you to buy her another one. Communication is very important and I can see were she can lost a cell very easily seeing that I lost 5 in two months when I was working downtown. The workers steal them . Just buy her one that is less expensive because those don't draw attention.

I had to replace my daughters cell phone at least twice, but the thing is we are prepaid and her cells amounted to 50 dollars, very basic, and well she took care of the last one, but her battery was acting up and I spent 30 bucks to replace (again very basic) So, In your shoes I would replaced it, And stop doing so when she finishes college.

I personally do not believe she deserves another phone. I f she is a college student, she should be adult enough to keep a phone and be able to pay for it herself. I am a college studen working part time, and I am able to pay for a phone and a new car, along with other bills, so she should be able to pay for her own phone.

Well P1ke I am a big Softie so I would buy her new one, I mean strange enough my Daughter went through a Phase like that a couple of years ago But yes I would buy her another because I am soft beggar when it comes to my Children lol

that's a hard one. of course the importance of having a cell phone is big. however the importance of being responsible is just as big. I would make her wait a while before she got a new one. I would send her some coins and tell her to use them to call home every day while i think about replacing the cell phone. If she is working I would make her pay for half of the cost of a new one

My first reaction was to say not to replace it. This is the second phone she lost. She needs to learn to be more responsible. But recently I had a talk with a mother who has a daughter away at college. She said it is essential for her daughter to have a cell phone, because in cases of emergencies, like the Virginia Tech shootings, her college relies on sending emergency text messages to alert students. Maybe it's essential for your daughter to have a cell phone. Maybe she needs to replace it herself, instead of having mommy and daddy shelling out the money. Or if she has no money, like many college students, ask her to do something in exchange for the cell phone.

No, don't get her another phone just yet. Let her spend a couple of months without one. I know you will suffer, too, but she needs to take things seriously. Make her buy her own otherwise.

hi pikey I am moving today but am on here for a couple of hours, things are in a turmoil but apparently its all going to work out, only thing i can say now is its good my hair is already grey or it would have turned snow white by now from stress, enough crying on your shoulder . ah Pikey she's your little girl, be a nice daddy and buy her one more cell phone, then tell her thats it, she looses this one, shes gonna have to buy it herself. As old as I am I do remember my first year in college and being away from home, I was just a farm girl, much too shy, and did I ever miss my parents.She deserves one more chance, and shes probably a lot more self possessed than I w as at that age. I did go back a nd finished Univeristy so I could get my BA and I was 56! that was sort of hard but I did do it. When I was twenty I was a little idiot and dropped out in my sophmore year, then worked til I qas 31, got married and had two kids in 11 months so took ages before I felt I could go back and g et that degree lol

How about you get her a really outdated one, something that she can only use for phone calls and nothing else, and tell her that if that phone stays with her for a certain period of time (set by you ofcourse.. I might say a year but that's a bit too harsh :P) you will get her a new and better phone. This way she should learn to be more responsible with her belongings, and if she loses this one too tell her to buy the next one with her own money, because it just can't be simply coincidence anymore that she's losing her phone(s) that many times! That's just ridiculous. She's either doing somtin to em or someone is stealing them off of her O.o