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Darth Biscuit

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  1. My friend from the gym Erin that I posted earlier this week got 2nd in her weight class at the meet today, she pulled 285 on dead, did 280 on squat and 175 on bench for a total of 740 at 140lbs.

    Stoked for her, she's been working hard.

    I'm deadlifting tomorrow and hopefully I can pull a new PR. I've felt pretty good this week.

  2. I use find my friends it only works for iPhones but it's way more accurate then life 360

     

     

    Life360 tracks my phone (Droid Maxx) to literally like 10 feet.  My wife has a 6 and youngest son a 5S and they're within like 100 yards... my oldest son also has a 5S and his is usually much closer, say 25 yards...

     

    Me thinks it's the quality of the GPS in the phone as opposed to the software.

     

    However any of those aforementioned distances are plenty adequate for the purposes I use it for.

  3. Thanks... my son is 21 and about to graduate college in May but he is not responsible enough for one yet but I was thinking about my 10 year.

     

    She is only in the 5th grade so it will be a couple years or more. I know a couple of her friends have cell phones and it just seems very young to me but each situation and kid is different. 

     

    100% agree, every kid is very different.  My older one has more morals than I do.  If he ever even thought of doing wrong, he'd tell me or his mom first...

     

    The younger one, not so much...

     

    Honestly it depends on the situation.  If your daughter rides the bus home and walks home alone any distance, then yeah, I'd consider it.  Fortunately for both of mine my wife was a teacher at their school thru elementary school so she could always take them and bring them.  In middle school, I was able to take them (or have a neighbor with kids take them) and they always had the neighbor bring them home.

     

    My youngest started riding the bus a lot more in 7th grade, but in 7th and 8th grade, my oldest was usually home from HS when the youngest got off the bus so it wasn't an issue.

     

    This year, my youngest gets off the bus alone and walks home to an empty house.  Therefore I got him that phone so he could call us AND I can track him, and I put an alarm on the house so that I know he's going home to a safe place.

  4. Just curious but how old were they when you got them cell phones? My daughter isn't ready for one yet, but I think she is getting near that age. Each kid (situation) is different however. 

     

    My older one got his going into 9th grade.

     

    My younger one got his going into 8th grade, but that was after we'd realized that we could track them AND we realized that we REALLY needed to track our younger one for various reasons.  The younger one's first phone was just a basic phone so that we could keep tabs on him and he could call us if he wasn't home (while riding the bus, etc)  We gave him my wife's old iPhone before he started school this year specifically so I could put Life360 on it to track his ass.

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