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Emergency Phone for Kids | Prepping with Kids | Prepping for Non-Preppers #BetterPrepared
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Having a phone can be an important tool in an emergency. There is lots of conversation and controversy around purchasing phones for kids. After a bunch of research, I found a phone setup that would be budget-friendly, functional for a variety of emergency situations, and kid-friendly.
In this video I’ll walk through why I got phones for my kids, what carrier and plan I selected, some of the configurations that I made to make it easier to use and more functional, and one of the great apps I added to make the phone more functional with or without a signal.
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have you thought about getting your
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child some sort of an emergency cell
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phone device but thought they’re really
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expensive and didn’t know what to do
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well stay tuned we’re gonna walk through
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the phones that I’ve got why I’ve got
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them and how you can get one of your own
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stay tuned hey everybody I’m Casey and
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welcome back to Cascadia dispatch
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prepping for non Preppers where we have
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weekly videos to help you get prepared
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when you maybe don’t want to be prepared
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so today we are going to talk about kids
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emergency phones last week we talked
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about kids emergency kits for school and
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in that video I talked about the fact
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that we had a phone for each of the kids
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and that I was going to talk about that
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in a future video well folks today is
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that future video if you’d like to see
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more videos like this go ahead and
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subscribe hit the like button and we are
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going to dive into why I have the phones
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for my kids where I got them what’s on
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them and all of the other little details
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that you might want to know especially
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the cost okay so why did I get
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cellphones for my children who at the
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time were five and eight yes five and
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eight most parents don’t get cellphones
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for their children until they are much
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older until they’re driving why did I
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get them especially so young so there
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are a couple of reasons why I did this
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number one was in case of an emergency I
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wanted them to have a way to communicate
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and yes I know that cell towers may be
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down in case of an emergency like if it
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was an earthquake or something like that
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but if it was some other type of
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emergency if it was some sort of a
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lockdown situation or a lockout
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situation or there was you know a leak
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in a gas line or something like that the
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kids had to be evacuated from the school
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so more of a school specific disaster I
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wanted them to have a way to get ahold
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of us our children go to a charter
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school that is about 20 minutes away
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from our house so we’re not necessarily
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gonna be able to walk to get them it may
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take us a little while to get to them so
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having a way to communicate not only
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with us but also with each other
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because each of them have their own
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phone number and so they could talk to
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each other there are different ends of
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the the field or something like that I
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thought was really important
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the second reason I got the phones for
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the kids is because we’re not always
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planning for a major disaster a lot of
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the tips and tricks and things that I
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talk about in my videos aren’t just
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about planning for an earthquake or what
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you need specifically for an earthquake
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or a hurricane or a tornado
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it’s about getting items and supplies
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and plans in place so that if an
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earthquake or a major disaster does
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happen you’re prepared but also it makes
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the smaller disasters and the smaller
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issues that you come across during your
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day a little bit easier to deal with be
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it a flat tire be it you left your
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wallet at home all kinds of little
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things that can happen if you have some
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of these plans in place they will make
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life easier and for my children they are
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now at the age where they’re going to
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friends houses they are going to
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sleepovers they are going to classes and
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so having a way for them to communicate
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in an emergency is important or if you
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know something happens while they’re to
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a friend’s house and they miss us or
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something or they need to get a hold of
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us because a parent is having an issue
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having a phone is is a key thing for
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them to have I’m gonna put a caveat in
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right here about just parenting and
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judgment and children getting a phone
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for your child and having a subscription
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for that phone and things there’s a
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financial obligation there are a lot of
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things that are unique to your own
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parenting style and your own child’s
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level of responsibility maturity and all
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that sort of stuff this is one of those
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where it’s your judgment call and I’m
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not judging anything that you do I’m
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just telling you what I did based on the
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way that I wanted to kind of parent the
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kids and also how how the kids are
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responsibly was we have gone over things
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like when to use the phone and when not
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to use the phone you don’t use it in
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class you only use it in an emergency
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they know that if they don’t follow that
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rule then that phone would go away there
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are other consequences
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that are associated with that there is
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they understand that there’s a financial
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piece to this and wasting those finances
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may mean that there are other things
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that they don’t get to have if they
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choose to waste those if it’s an
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emergency
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talk all you want to if it’s just a
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Tuesday and you felt like calling a
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friend which they couldn’t do because
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they don’t have friend umbers in here
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then that’s a different thing so again
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this is I know that this could be a
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little controversial because everyone
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has their ideas of Ages and phones and
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screen time and all that kind of stuff
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this is just what I did for my kids and
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if it resonates with you great I
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encourage you to do it but doesn’t
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resonate with you and you want to go to
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different great great awesome wonderful
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to no judgment just ideas all right so
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let’s talk about the specifics of kind
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of this whole phone setup so the first
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thing is the carrier so I went to a lot
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of different carriers trying to find
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what used to be called a burn phone
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where you could pay a prepaid amount of
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money and you would get a certain amount
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of minutes and you could just kind of
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stash it in your car or you could keep
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it in a backpack and and it didn’t
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expire and it didn’t matter those sorts
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of phones apparently don’t exist anymore
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most of the companies that used to do
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that now have expiration dates on the
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minutes so if you bought 90 minutes of
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time you would have 30 days to use that
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or it would go away so from a financial
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perspective you’re buying in a lot of
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minutes and then you’re having to keep
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track of constantly reloading and
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managing that and that’s not what I
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wanted to do I also don’t want these
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phones to be data heavy I don’t want
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them to be a subscription like we have
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for our regular everyday phones our kids
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have phones at home that they can play
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games on and that you know they could
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watch a movie on if they want to if
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they’re connected to Wi-Fi but I don’t
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want to spend on a data plan for this
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sort of a
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thing I want it to be for making phone
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calls and text messaging and that’s
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pretty much it so as I was researching
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one of the things I found was t-mobile
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t-mobile has a plan that you can get
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that is a prepaid phone plan that costs
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three dollars a month and you get thirty
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minutes of talk time and or thirty text
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messages what’s great about the plan is
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you can load up money in advance and
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then it will just take off the three
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dollars a month so if it’s an emergency
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and they need to talk more okay it’s ten
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cents a minute or whatever it is a
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minute and it’ll just eat into that
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balance otherwise it will keep the phone
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active and it will just be using that $3
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a month they were running a promotion
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when I got the phones so I ended up
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getting three years worth of coverage
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time it was like $100 promotion that
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each of the kids have so their phones
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are prepaid for three years every month
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and I don’t have to worry about it in
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three years they will probably be at the
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age where they will want a more
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significant phone and will probably be
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in the position where we want to get
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them a more significant phone but this
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will cover them for thirty minutes
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whatever they want it every month and it
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only costs three dollars and it doesn’t
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expire so you don’t have to worry about
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your investment kind of going away okay
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so let’s talk about the actual phone
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itself why did I pick a smart phone
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versus a flip phone most people would
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say get a flip phone it’s only for
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texting and calling that’s the most
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straightforward in the least expensive
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you would be correct
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except this is a little more expensive I
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think it was $20 more than the the least
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expensive flip phone it does do more
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than text and call if I connected data
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to it I have it connected to Wi-Fi so if
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they’re at school or if they’re at home
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they have internet and data if they’re
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out of that they don’t have it but in
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theory they wouldn’t need it at that
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point and there are some reasons for
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that that I’m about to go into so what
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makes the smart phone the better option
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than the flip phone why did I do it and
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what are the features well
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there are several the first one is you
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can actually load a bunch of information
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into this phone so this phone almost
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kind of becomes a little computer for
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your kid
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I have things like family photos loaded
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in here I’ve gone through the contact
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list and actually assigned pictures of
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each person to their phone number and
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contact information so my at that point
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five year old who couldn’t read could go
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in and figure out with the buttons
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because little kids are hackers and they
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know how to get into all of our phones
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she was able to go in and find her
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contact list and look at the pictures
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and figure out what my number was what
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my wife’s number was what her
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grandparents numbers were and if she
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needed to call or get or for help she
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could look at the pictures and find that
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if you have a flip phone you can’t do
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that very well most of the flip phones
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don’t have that capability in addition
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to customizing the contact list with all
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of the phone numbers and pictures I also
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had a store of family photos in the
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phone so if there was a need for
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reunification or anything like that each
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kid has the same pictures and the same
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family photos and everything that would
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make it easy for myself for my wife if
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we can’t get there for a grandparent or
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an uncle or an aunt to go and pick them
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up or at least be with them because they
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would have some way of validating that
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yes this person is related to me by
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using the pictures on the phone some
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people would want to have that in a
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paper format in an emergency kit so
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laminating a family photo that is
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another great option and I would
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encourage you to do that it’s something
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that I have on my to-do list is to kind
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of do that as well
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but in the meantime it was kind of
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faster to get them onto the phone so
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they would at least have them another
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reason that the smartphone is preferable
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for kids versus a flip phone is for my
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kids that are younger and they were
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learning to read and write and things
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trying to do the kind of three click t9
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texting that exists on a flip phone is
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going to be a lot more difficult for
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them to kind of manage and understand
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and think through versus on a smart
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phone there
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a standard typewriter and they can see
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the letters and they can see the words
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and there’s autocorrect and things so
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they can actually do some of that they
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could also use the voice the Google
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Voice capability to just say what they
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want to say and then have it translated
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into a text message and send that out
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and they don’t need to be connected to
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Wi-Fi or Internet to do that really it
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should all be able to be done on the
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phone itself in addition to all of the
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contact kind of plans and reasons to do
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it from a mapping perspective I wanted
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to have some way for them to be able to
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see where they were going if they needed
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to get to our house if they needed to
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get to a relative’s house if we couldn’t
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get to them but a friend could or
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something I wanted them to have some way
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of navigating from where they were to
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where we are and so the way that I do
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that is there is an app called here or
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here we go it’s a great app it’s a
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mapping app kind of like Google Maps or
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Apple maps but it’s got all kinds of
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maps and you can put in things what’s
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great about it is you can put in points
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of interest so for me I put in all of
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our kind of relative houses and kind of
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our meeting points and things like that
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that are in layers that are held in the
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cloud so I can enter them once and then
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I can download them into each of the
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phones and manage and update them
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centrally so if we add a new if we add a
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new meeting place it’ll automatically
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update on the phones which is great but
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you can also then have an offline
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capability so here we go allows you to
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turn off the the online and make it
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offline only so if the phones can’t
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connect to South towers if they can’t
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connect to Wi-Fi all of the relevant and
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pertinent maps as well as directions and
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locations will be available in the phone
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for them so if they’re trying to help a
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friend figure out where they need to be
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if they’re trying to get home themselves
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they have a fully functional map with
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directions for walking for driving that
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is all available I even think there’s a
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voice capability
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it will actually tell you what the
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directions are which is great for
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potentially younger kids if they’re
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trying to to navigate a street which
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hopefully they wouldn’t hopefully they
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would be with the parents but worst case
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worst case scenario there’s some
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something that they could actually be
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telling them where they’re going or they
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can have the phone in their pockets so
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they could have their hands-free to hold
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whatever they needed to hold and still
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be getting the directions so here we go
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is a great app for that it’s not
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available on a flip phone but you can
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get it on a smart phone pretty easily
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okay everybody so that is gonna wrap it
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up for kind of the overview of the kids
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emergency phones that I’ve put together
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for them let me know in the comments if
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you think your kids would benefit from
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having an emergency phone have you
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thought about getting your kids an
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emergency phone have you looked into
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kind of the GPS tracker route are you
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more interested in that let us know what
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you’re thinking if you already have an
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emergency phone what kind is you get for
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your kids are there other plans I wasn’t
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able to find any other plans that were
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prepaid like this like t-mobile had but
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if there are other ones out it’d be
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great to share them with the group so
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let leave that down in the comments
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