So, we bought a landline.
It’s possible you’ll be questioning why, which is a completely legitimate query! It’s 2026–everybody has a mobile phone!
We’re doing our greatest to carry off till age 16 to provide the youngsters a mobile phone. My older two have apple watches, which have served the precise function we wanted them to, and I think about my youngest will get an apple watch within the subsequent 12 months or in order nicely.
There are occasions when I’ve to run up the road to the shop and a number of the youngsters willl keep house. And whereas they might put their watch on and I might contact them that means, I discovered I needed them to have entry to a fast, straightforward to make use of machine to name me, or 911 in an emergency.
So, the landline was the reply!
Justin did the analysis and we landed on an Omma telephone. It’s wifi based mostly which implies no telephone line must be put in! We discovered it to work greatest when the unit is plugged instantly into our web router as an alternative of attempting to attach wirelessly. There’s a voicemail choice, which we don’t use, and it’s a cordless telephone so my boys can take it upstairs to the playroom if I’m operating an errand.
It has labored very nicely for us and provides me peace of thoughts that they’ve a straightforward to make use of machine to name me or Justin on! They will additionally use it to name their buddies and I like that it doesn’t have a display.
My solely remorse is just not getting in sooner as a result of it was comparatively cheap, it has served the precise function we wanted it for, and it’s permitting the youngsters to have social freedoms with their buddies in a means that Justin and I really feel comfy with.
