Cell phone debate

[Eleven]

Originally Posted by E.J.

In the end, does he need a phone....no. He also doesn't need $600 hockey skates...

Whoa! hold on a sec!, lets not get carried away! My kid has lost a cell phone, *and* broken a $160 hockey stick all within a week of each other.

The phone was an unforgivable lapse of judgment and he will wait a long time before getting a new one, but the stick was the result of him playing hard and trying hard and not screwing around and being irresponsible.

We haven't paid 600 for skates yet, but we have paid 350. The phone was cheap but that isn't the point.

I would gladly pay another $350 for new skates if something like a blade broke that couldn't be replaced. I am going to have to pay for a new stick, and will do that when regular season starts up (on a side note, he broke it in Spring Hockey, and is using backup sticks now).

But the phone, that was a privilege and he screwed it up. Hockey is a different story, you can't play AAA youth hockey with 30 dollar skates and a 10 dollar stick. The demands on the equipment and their bodies require high quality, otherwise you are buying several pairs of skates and 10 sticks a year, not to mention the hassle of all the distractions, blisters, crappy shots, etc etc.

Wow, what a tangent huh!?!??! Just trying to say that you cannot equate a cell phone for a kid with hockey equipment. You get what you pay for, and even worse, you can seriously hamper or even injure your kid with low quality skates or other equipment