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There are sure things people just shouldn’t do with cell phones! Like talking in the grocery store line while attempting to remunerate for your groceries, talking in church (like not anyone will notice!), talking while driving and eating and talking to the persons in the car or talking in the middle of class!

Hey – I love my cell phone as much as any individual else, but humans are starting to go overboard! You can’t have a speech with a person before their cell rings and then they get text messages and then they have to surf the web and then their voice mail goes off because the phone was too busy to receive any actual calls. Come on! Enough is enough.

And, in that spirit, following is an official lists of Do’s and Don’t's (please don’t take this list personally – but if you do, then you know that problem applies to you!):

Don’t:

1. Talk on your cell phone at church

2. Talk on your cell phone in class (you’re disturbing us, too!)

3. Talk when it comes to your mother when there are mothers around you.

4. Talk with regards to your kids when there are kids around you.

5. Talk and eat.

6. Talk when there is a home phone less than 1 foot away from you.

7. Talk on the bus at the top of your lungs (we all have to ride with you at least a few more stops – have pity on us!)

8. Talk to your old boyfriend when your new boyfriend is around.

9. Talk to your old girlfriend when your new girlfriend is around.

10. Talk to your parents and then pretend to lose the connection so you don’t have to talk to them anymore!

Do:

1. Text message whenever possible.

2. Learn how to text message with normal capitalization – not ALL CAPS.

3. Surf the web on your own time – not in the middle of a conversation.

4. Turn your cell phone to silent/vibrate when you are in church.

5. Turn your cell off when you are at the movies (or at least don’t check the messages – we may all see that screen light up!).

6. Figure out how to turn your cell phone to silent/vibrate (nobody wants to listen ‘My Boo’ or ‘Drop it Like It’s Hot’ because you can’t operate your phone).

7. Ask persons if they want their picture taken.

8. Show persons the pictures you took – don’t post them as your wallpaper because they look so ‘crazy’.

9. Offer your cell phone to persons who are lost, whose car is broken down or who need you to call their cell so they may locate.

10. Transfer your phone book to your new phone – stop calling every one each time you get a new phone because their phone number is in the ‘old’ phone.

Help your teenager exercise good cell phone etiquette today and make the world a better place!

Cell Phone Etiquette Observations Mom Picture

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1 of 1 persons found the following review helpful.
WOW! Michelle, you’re book is incredible!
By Amanda van der Gulik
It’s SOOO funny, and SOOO true! Thank-you from the
bottom of my heart for permitting us to see inside
your mind and read and feel your humourous and
sensible thoughts on cellphone etiquette.

My own kids are just little and I will be making
sure I role model to them how I hope they will
respect and regard their future cellphones.

Your book is not only fantastically fun to read but
also gives a good deal of straight forward, mutual courtesy,
as well as sensible safety lessons on how we should
be treating our cell phones and more importantly
those nearby us while we are on our phones! ;o)

Thanks Michelle, outstanding job! I think ALL cellphone
owners ought to grab a copy of your book!

They’ll LOVE it!

Cheers…Amanda van der Gulik…Excited Life Enthusiast! ;o)
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1 of 1 humans found the following review helpful.
TFLMS, TISC, WFM, NISM?
By Peter Sorrells
You’ll want to read this (quick, easy, informative) book to get the “secret decoder ring” so you may grasp your kids’ text messages! The title of this review in translated to be: “Thanks for letting me share, This is so cool, Works for me, Need I say more?” Some good counsel for cell phone manners, plus this outstanding list of text-message shorthand. Which I am now memorizing so I may commune with my kids… and decipher their messages to each other.

1 of 1 persons found the following review helpful.
Parents ought to make their children read this to “qualify” for cellphones.
By SpryFeet.com
Do cellphones disclose an inherent rudeness in a good deal of people, or do cellphones cause galore humans to become rude? No matter what the answer is, Michelle Cimino is on a mission. As the mother of two teenagers, Cimino is on a mission to tell engaging stories in regards to what works and does not work with cellphones. Courtesy seems to be the greatest victim of cellphone use, and Cimino gives lots of motherly counsel with regards to being more courteous with one’s cellphone. I would commend Cell Phone Etiquette by Michelle Cimino to all parents who are with regards to to give their children cellphones. Every parent facing this circumstance must read this humorous and instructional book first. And then he or she ought to make each child who is when it comes to to get a cellphone read the book, too. Perhaps the parent will have to even test the child for comprehension of the subject matter before “qualifying” the child to get a cellphone. Talk in regards to using cellphones to improve communication! — Kirk Mahoney, Ph.D., [...]

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