My kids went way over their cell phone bill minutes

My kids are too young for the cell phones. They are 1 and 2. Maybe you could get the unlimited texting. I think it's $5 more a month and then maybe you can talk to the phone company and when they go over an allotted amount of minutes their phone is done or something like that. That is crazy.

That was whooping bill you had there linda! Oh gosh! I can really made a month budget with that lol! I'm only spending around $10 for my cellphone expense for we have cheap service here and I'm a prepaid sim holder I deactivated my plan because if you are on a plan you can't control the usage of your cellphone. Is there any prepaid sim in your country? Maybe it's better for children to have limit in thier usage or have a certain budget so that you will not be over bill.

Nope because my son pays his own bill. You shouldn't of had them on your plan to begin with. You are only asking for trouble.

My gosh, that is high. How can it be that high? Was it using the internet? Cause that really racks up the minutes. Man, I would have had a heart attack too. Argh.

Yes I think this is pretty conman. We had to take our sons cell away from him after he went way over his limit. When he was younger her also did this with our pay preview TV our bill came in for one month at $265.00 we hit the roof. All kids seem to be like this they seem to have no concept of money. Our son is 20 now and we remind him of some of this he understands now.

Wow your kids are lucky to all have their own cellphones. My son is only four but I'm sure one day he will ask for one, and when that day comes, he better be ready to pay for it himself. I can't afford to pay $700 in cell phone bills... how do you do it?!?

Well I don't as they are old enough to pay for their own and we are all on pay as you go none of us have a contract Phone. So we do not have this problem once we have used up the money we either put nore money on or do without.

What are your kids' cell phones numbers? Lol, haha!!!.

Wow! Have you taken their phones away yet? If it were me, they would never get them back. It seems that kids have a very hard time realizing that they need to limit their cellphone usage. I have similar difficulty with my teenaged daughter. I purchased here a prepaid cellphone that I can control completely through the cellphone company's website. She has to earn money for her minutes through chores. Once she gets a real job, she can add as much time to the phone as she wishes. For right now, she has to budget the time, which I think is a good learning experience for her.

Yes, my daughter went over her minutes once! Needless to say I was going to take her phone away. I think it was just the threat that I was going to that made her stop and think about it. If you need too, take them away for a day and let them think about that. It should only take one day and I'm sure they would get the point! Ask them if they would like them taken away for a month after that. You should review your plan, kids like texting ALOT! I added unlimited texting to her line not mine. Another thing is maybe you can up your minutes for the shared lines. But upgrading to the texting plan has really saved me alot of money.