Ow.....my cell phone bill is $470 this month!

I would maybe suggest she works the bill off doing chores for you - it might make her realise that you have to work to pay the bills and she might think twice next time. I would also look at getting her a part time job and again taking a percentage of what she earns until the bill is paid off. My kids are 2 & 5 so i hope i have a while before we have to deal with it.. Good luck!

and my idea to u is put a simple mobile with jus contacting stuff and get a PC with internet again at simple rate u wanna contact , use INTERNET sites like GLOBE , u can jus call ur daughters mobile if u jus want cheers

four seventy DOLLARS :O OMFJ mine is probably not even 5 percent of urs lolzzz infact mine is maximum say 15 or 20 dollars MAXIMUM 470 is a good money who ever the telephone operator is he is very llucky to hav a customer like u :D

Wow that is a lot of money for cell phone but you are not alone. My son is 16 and ran our bill up like that so we changed our plan. We now have the family plan with myfaves, he gets to choose 5 friends that he can call anytime that he wants to and it is free, for an extra ten bucks a month we added unlimited texting. We have blocked him from being able to do any downloading at all. It is nice though because he can change his 5 personal numbers once every month and these numbers do not count against our minutes, since it is also family plan we can all call each other and it does not count towards our minutes. We pay a little over a $100 a month for 3 phones 2000 minutes, unlimited texting, and the myfaves. It is really the way to go if you have children. After we did all of that he had to pay us back for the phone bill. He even go on here at mylot to try to earn some extra money to help get it paid off faster. Since he is 16 and already had normal chores like the garbage he did not get to earn dollars for that but instead he was given different dollar amounts for things like the dishes, laundry, cleaning the bathroom, sweeping and mopping. He did not enjoy it but let me tell you he will ask now before he does something that may end up costing us in the long run. I would call your company and see what kind of plans they have to offer, tell them the situation and they may actually have something that would work with you and your daughter. Make sure she is paying her large bill off also, don't let her slide even one day if you do she will not learn her lesson. Good luck with this.

Wow, your phone bills is very high, here it doesn't cost that much. Maybe you just have to tell your daughter to limit the calls, disable the downloading capabilities because internet thru phone is charged the same as a phone call.

I feel your pain, and I've been there. I have two daughters, 18 and 20. I know you got the phone for her for your own convenience, but teaching her this concept may mean she has to be without it for a while. You may want to take it off of her entire for a month. (No home phone privileges either. Remember, she totally defied you when she downloaded.) Then, the following month, at the beginning of your billing cycle, tell her the number of minutes she gets to use. Tell her it's her chance to earn back your trust and see whether or not she gets to have a phone. Check her phone daily for the "minute count." If she can't balance it out, then when she has reached her allotment for the month, take the phone. Period. I know, it will inconvenience you, but there is no word to describe what it will do to her (believe me!) If you pry the phone out of their white-knuckled fingers, they act like you have ripped out a major artery. Just suck it up and do it. I would say that she can't be trusted and ought to have a pre-paid minutes only phone, but I suspect since she already has one that you are "on contract" and it would cost hundreds to get rid of that one and get the other kind. If I'm wrong, do that. It is the safest way. If she has no money to pay her half of the existing bill, she will have to "work it off." Assign dollar values to various jobs around the house (not her regular chores but things you normally have to take care of.) Then post a list and let her select what jobs she is willing to complete in order to work down her debt to you. Only credit her the full amount if the job is done to your satisfaction. Make sure she has a deadline for completing the payoff, and be sure that deadline is strict enough that she has to do some of the work every single day for you. And you are right to remove the internet and text capabilities from her phone. That has nothing to do with you staying in touch with her. As cheap as they are, you might get one of those prepaid minutes phones for her to have on her while she is at her dad's. Tell her she can't actually use it unless she needs to reach you, but that it must stay on in order for you to reach her. As I had to tell mine many times, if she's going to act like an irresponsible child, you will -- unfortunately --have to treat her like one until she learns her lesson. This is a tough time. Hang in, mama. It doesn't last forever.

Just don't give her the phone. If you only got it so you can contact her at her dad's then only give it to her when she is going to her dad's house and tell her if there are any extra charges from that weekend she has to pay for them. And in this case I would make her pay the bill for what she charged up even if that means just doing chores with no allowance for the next 3 months. Luckily, my kids are still little (my oldest is 6) so I haven't had to deal with this but I knew kids like that. My husband's nephew is like that. He got to use my cell phone while he was visiting my husband (I was out of town and forgot the phone at home). He gave out my number to random kids from all over, sent and recieved text messages (we have no text subscription so each one costs 10 cents) and ran up about $30 worth of calls. Not much but the phone was for emergencies only. It didn't mean anything to him since he didn't have to pay it. At home he can do whatever he wants and gets whatever he wants.

youngsters really do not know the value of money because they have not earned hard for it. if you will tell them to work for their allowance, like daily chores, they will know how important it is to save up.

I know she may not think it was cool but I would get one of the new Disney Phones or something like it. It is the only kind of phone I would let my daughters have until they are old enough to get a job. It lets you program certain numbers into the phone. Only those numbers can be called or call the phone.

OUCH !!! It sounds like someone needs to loose their phone priveleges, and get a job to help pay the bill.I would not increase your minutes, but definitely put a stop to the 'extras'. And make your child get a job. Maybe not a real job, but babysitting, or mow yards, shovel snow. Something to make them pay off their debt. Once they spend some time working, and have to spend their hard earned money on a phone bill, they will get a whole new perspective of the consequences of going over the boundaries.

Ouch, I feel your pain. Not that much pain but a much higher bill. Text messaging was what caused our increase. I just added an unlimited text message for about $15, my son sent 1140 text messages @ .10

well i live in Florida and here we use metro pcs.I buy the phone get a months service with the phone and the service starts at 40.00 a month.Local calling is 40 for unlimited talk and 5.00 extra for text messageing.My grandaughter has a Nokia that does all the things that kids think they need,video,camera,ringtones etc,unlimted long distance and texting,unlimited local.She is sometimes on the phone litterally all night with friends and I pay 62.00 a month every month including insurance.Last year her phone fell apart and the fee to replace the phone was 85.oo flat rate and she was sent a brand new phone.The fee to replace a phone can be as low as a 50.00 deductiable depending on the model you have and my grandaughter has a top of the line nokia so the deductable was 85.00 I think this is a good service and her bill is smaller than my landline phone which I keep because of the Hurricanes here.If the service is in your area,try it.Go to metro pcs.com for more info.

Yep my mum does! my bill this month was 100 dollars (155 SGD) i admit thats way too high but i mean its really hard, when we arent on the computer we must be in constant contacts with out bffs, gfs, bfs and WE's just in case something happens1!

Ooo wow I pay each month about 20$ for phone bill.I and i speak a lot I don't know is it very cheap here but 470$ for phone bill is a hella of a bill

There is nothing to do except jsut giving the bill

Hi. I know how you must be feeling !! Once my mobile phone bill was so extravgant as well . I got a real hiding from my parents, especially my father. So I've cut down on my wxpenses a bit now !! Cheers ..

hi i would go buy her one of those pre paid cell phones so that you can get ahold of her and know that you arent gonna get a huge bill in the mail.