You'd call it a very different kind of phone contract And an iPhone is a big-ticket item, so she's only protecting her investment when she asks him to look after it. The number of times in the last week that I have almost stepped on my daughter's new Kindle as she leaves it On The Floor to charge is teeth-grindingly high. But what Mrs Burley Hofmann is really pushing is improved social behaviour in the contract, which is now racing through cyberspace. Points include: Do not text, email, or say anything to someone that you would not say out loud with their parents in the room. Censor yourself. No porn. Search the web for information you would openly share with me. If you have a question about anything, ask a person - preferably me or your father. And an admirable intention (one might wonder how this story became public until one realises that mom has a blog). But in my experience, teenagers can only a) hear, and b) follow, one instruction at a time. Maybe Gregory is different? But it is when she tells him to look up, to have memories, not photos, and to leave the phone at home sometimes that I lose patience.