Friendship is very important to teens in general, but it is not until they are around 14 or 15 when parents begin to see that their children are spending a lot more time with their friends and less time with their family. The phone begins ringing off the wall and they may have five chat sessions going on at once. When a parent sees this, it is natural for them to be concerned, but there is one important parenting rule of thumb to remember – pick your battles wisely. No parents can see their teens spending too much time on their cell phones. But for safety reasons they have to b provided cell phone.

But teens take their cell phone for granted. They start spending their most of the time on cell phone. Using cell phone for long time has many disadvantages which are as follows:

• Raising bills: Obviously long use of cell phone tends to raise bill which directly hits the budget.
• Study gets affected: When teens spend too much time on cell phone their study gets affected too. The study time is also spend on chatting with friends over the phone. Hence the study is ignored and they get poor grades.
• Health issues: Teens get bad health due to the excessive use of cell phone. They become lethargic, stressed and have low energy.
• Sleep deprived: Study shows that young people with excessive use of cell phones (both talking and text messaging) have increased restlessness with more careless lifestyles, more consumption of stimulating beverages, difficulty in falling asleep and disrupted sleep, and more susceptibility to stress and fatigue. They behave more like larks than owls, suggesting a delayed biological clock. Also using cell phones for long time can cause brain cancer and hear impairties.The rays which the cell phone is catching from the towers causes such.
• Without parent’s knowledge: Parents don't know if the kids are calling to the genuine person or not coz many kids are having habit of calling wrong numbers and if receiving a fake call they hang on it for hours talking and talking.

So what can you do to stops them spending too much time on their phones? The answer is simple. Just set some rules and tell them to your teens before buying them a cell phone. Here is a list of some rules which you can give them:

• During the school week, the phone goes into the parent’s bedroom at 9 PM. He can have it back in the morning after he is completely ready for school.
• The phone is to be turned off during meals, and during homework. Once homework is completed and packed for the next day, and his after-dinner chores are done, he's free to use the phone until 9 PM.
• Determine if you will allow texting/messaging. Kids can rapidly run up a large phone bill with texting. If you do allow it, let him know how many Messages he can do.
• If you allow texting, you are within your rights to check messages that may be stored on the phone, if you have suspicions of illegal or dangerous activities.
• The phone is to be turned off when visiting with relatives or friends, or at other inappropriate times (movies, museums, etc.)
• Let him know that if his grades go down, and he doesn't correct the problem fairly quickly, that he will lose cell phone privileges until his grades are back up.
These rules may be added to as needed, or amended as needed. But definitely set the ground rules and stick with them! When you overlook something once, that's a "loop hole" that kids will use: "Well, you let me before!"

These rules may be added to as needed, or amended as needed. But definitely set the ground rules and stick with them! When you overlook something once, that's a "loop hole" that kids will use: "Well, you let me before!"