In a recent press release, French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot has made his concerns over the use of cellular public and urged parents to limit use, and reduce children’s telephone calls to no more than six minutes. Six minutes!
Although there’s no specific evidence to its threat, all the same, this tidbit is fodder to my paranoid self. Perfect excuse to not want to know or read anything at all.
Okay. I do share his concern on the use of cellular phones, especially with children. I’ve always been concerned. I even wrote something about it. I’ll pretend you’re interested (please, humor me), so here’s an excerpt.
… I’m really not so keen on letting Matt use my mobile phone. Any cellphone, for that matter. I don’t completely trust its safety, radiation-wise. No matter how much I try to be all-accepting, all-believing, there’s just this niggling doubt that refuses to get squashed. Maybe I’m the only one who works in the telecoms who is cagey on letting her kid use a cellphone. I’m cagey, I’m crazy, I’m wary. Maybe I am overly, overly, overly cautious. No. not maybe. I AM overly, overly, overly cautious. I’m crazy, I know. It’s okay if it’s me, but not if it’s my son. Don’t ask me why. For someone who works under radiating microwaves 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. It’s funny. I’m funny. Certainly ridiculous.
But while I share Bachelot’s principle of precaution, I’m not so immune to my toddler’s advances to speak with his father over the phone. Nor could I begin to explain the 6-minute limit. He doesn’t even know what minute means but he does know how to count up to 10. And beg. And negotiate starting with the hold-only-please plea.
by Pam, on April 6 2008 @ 9:04 am
I always wonder about that too. I don’t often let my daughter use the cell phone…just once in a while.
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by Kellan, on April 7 2008 @ 9:39 am
It is scary- isn’t it?
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by MamaGeek, on April 7 2008 @ 11:14 am
You and I are so much alike. I started to worry when I heard this report too. Thank goodness for speakerphones on cellphones, right?
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by Melanie, on April 7 2008 @ 12:57 pm
It’s so scary- we just have no idea. And I’m also overly, overly, overly cautious.
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by grace, on April 7 2008 @ 5:07 pm
I am cautious too. There’s even some report circulating that we need to put the phone in our left ear and not on the right. Putting it on the right will ‘fry’ our brain yada, yada, blah blah…
In any case, our cellphone is off limits to our daughter unless she gets it when we’re not there.
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by ALF, on April 8 2008 @ 1:56 am
I believe that the world is a dangerous place. You could get hit by a bus tomorrow so you might as well talk on the phone today.
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by Ana, on April 8 2008 @ 7:00 am
I had those same worries. What’s a person to do, ya know? I try to use the speaker instead of putting it to my son’s head.
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by mama meji, on April 8 2008 @ 7:29 am
Just so disappointing that when my son activates the speakerphone -he knows how, he still puts the phone on his ears! Argh! And headsets are chewable for him. Maybe I’m not much of a good teacher… :-)
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by mama meji, on April 8 2008 @ 7:31 am
So true. I couldn’t agree more.
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by jana, on April 8 2008 @ 9:08 am
been here hopping
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by Jenileigh, on April 8 2008 @ 6:26 pm
Much food for thought.