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Once the province of doctors, technicians, and other professional people, pagers (or "beepers" as they're sometimes called) are a staple method of modern communication. It is up to you, the parent to decide whether or not your children should have a pager. If you have decided to allow your children to have a pager, we'd just like to offer you, the parent the benefit of our years of experience, which may be helpful to you in guiding your children.

More and more teenagers, and pre-teens are carrying, and using pagers. For the parents who approve of the use of pagers, we suggest discussing their use with your children, and setting up some guidelines for using their pagers. Although we could never include every guideline for every use, we do offer parents some ideas at the end of this page, which they may discuss with their children.

The first parent's rule for children having a pager is "you must get back to me when I page you". If you make this clear to your children, and tell them that it is a condition for having a pager, they'll get back to you. Even though having a pager is a privilege, not a right, it will help you keep your children honest because you can track them down. Just remind your children that there is no excuse for not calling back.

You can get a pager for your children for less than a cellular telephone, and the monthly charges are a fraction of the cost of the monthly cell phone bills (no surprise $300, $400 or $500 monthly cell phone bills). If you get one of our alphanumeric, or 2 Way pagers, your children will be able to respond to your PC or to your alphanumeric or 2 Way pager without the need for a telephone, and the cost can be as little as $10.95 per pager per month. And your children will not be spending limitless hours on the phone.

The decision of whether or not to allow your children to have a pager, rests solely with you their parents. If you do decide to let your children have a pager, we'd like to suggest a few thoughts for you, and them. While these are not exhaustive maybe they'll help you fashion your own rules for your children.

1. Do not use the pager while at school. Turn it off while at school. (If your children use one of our alphanumeric pagers, they'll get all their messages when they turn it back on)
   
2. DO NOT USE THE PAGER WHILE DRIVING! Either pull over to a safe spot, and then deal with your message, or preferably wait until you get to where you're going, if it is not very far, before using the pager.
3. If one of your parents pages you, you must get back to them within a reasonable period of time. Only you and your children can determine what is reasonable.
4. Tell your children that you're allowing them to have a pager because you trust them, and please ask them to not abuse that trust.
5. As a result of #4, trust your children, and don't show that you really don't trust them by paging them every half hour. Page them for the reasons you, yourself, would want to be paged.
6. You, the parent, should keep a spare battery or two, so that you can always know that your child's pager will work.
7. Remember, like cell phones, or any other wireless device, pagers don't work everywhere. If you tell your child that you are going to page them around a certain time, and they do not get a page, it might mean that there is some form of interference blocking the signal. Tell them to call you if they don't get a page from you by a certain time.

If we can be of any help to you on any of these issues, please contact us.