Originally Posted by
Fredd
Oh my! An expensive lesson for whoever bought the phone.
All a parent can do is realize "it could have been worse," although that thought, rather than comforting me, usually led me to worry even more about what else might happen to our teenagers.
+1
The young ones in the family who worry me the most are the ones who say "you're so paranoid, how can you live like that" when being asked to take ordinary precautions.
The source of many white hairs is the one who finally, at age 30, said (through tears of frustration and dismay) "I don't know why I always have to learn everything the hard way" (responding to most recent theft of wallet, just before flying home).