Toddlers and Cell Phones

[wwisdomskr]

Alright, Erica and I totally hijacked the birth bead thread talking about crazy phone calls that our 18 mo toddlers have made... I figured we better start our own thread. Anyone else want to share?

Who has your toddler called...that you really wish they wouldn't have?

[GinaRae]

Well it wasn't from a cell phone, but my oldest DS called 911 when he was 3 or so. He learned about it from daycare and called 911 from my parent's house.

They called my dad back to find out if they should send someone or if it was really just a child calling for nothing and both my dad and my DS answered the call . DS was in their bedroom.

Boy my dad was upset, but also laughing his butt off.

[Rikki Jean]

Jessica, I was thinking about starting this thread too! I figured it was totally hillarious, and I didn't want to go on hijaking that thread! Wasn't that your thread to begin with anyway?

So, here's basically what I posted over in the other thread, and then some:

DS has quite an obsession with my cell phone! Our first real "incident" was when he was about 14 mos and called 911. The 9 on my phone is automatically programmed to call 911 when held down, so that's how that happened. I didn't even know it until they called back. Actually, they called twice, but I didn't know they called the first time. Either he answered it, or it was just burried under a toy. Anyway, I answered the second time, and the woman said that she was calling from our PD about an emergency call. She probably kept me on the phone for a good two minutes, just to make sure everything really was okay. I was worried we were going to get fined or something (I know you can for prank calling 911), but she just laughed when I finally convinced her it was DS.

Since then, DS has made numerous phone calls to many family members. I have a lot of out of state family who is ahead of us, time wise, and I've warned them that if they get a call from us late at night and get woken up, it's DS's fault.

This is only a problem really because my cell phone doesn't have an option to lock the keys. I guess they figure if it's a flip phone, the buttons can't get pressed. The designer at Samsung obviously doesn't have a toddler!


Last weekend, we were going to meet our mw, and I had just called her twice because I couldn't get through to her vm, and was trying to let her know that we were lost. Then DS got ahold of my phone (I guess in my frustration I didn't realize that I handed it right to him!), and called her again. Of couse, HE got through to the vm! I apologized to her quite a few times, because I was sure that she was going to think we were crazy and harassing her!

One of the mws that we interviewed told us that she gets a few calls a week from her clients' toddlers.

[Rikki Jean]

So, last night we went to a birthday party, and DS got ahold of some coffee...: That meant that he was waaaaaay more awake than I was, at like 12:30. I was trying to nurse him down, and DH wasn't home, and I guess I fell asleep, because I opened my eyes, and he was sitting next to me talking to himself and playing with my phone. He was online (again)! I hope he didn't order anything!

[sorteep]

when Evan was about 4 and was just starting to have some speech he called my MIL on the phone.. dialed her number and all.. we have NO idea how he knew her #.. we thought he hit redial but when we asked him to call her again he punched in teh # and was right???? we seriously have NO idea how he knew this except maybe he scrolled back thru the recent calls and memorized it ( he is pretty savant with numbers times and dates.. like he can tell you what day of the week it was on a certain date and often what the weather was that day as well as any appointments and what times they were.. it is freaky) so far he has not called anyone we don't know!

[Argonaut]

My DD has the strangest habit of calling my brother's friend. The only reason I have my brother's friend's number in my phone is that sometimes my brother is unreachable and if I really need him, his friend will usually know where he is (he lives on the other side of the country from me). He's not the first number in my book (although his name does start with A), so it's not like she just hits down and then send, she hits down a certain number of times. And she never calls anyone else. She only calls him, and leaves rambling messages like some pint-size drunk-dialer, or talks to him if he picks up. She hasn't done this in a while since my phone is off limits these days, but she used to do it with astounding frequency and consistency. Freaky!