In "Texting May Be Taking a Toll," Katie Hafner explains what teenagers do everyday which is texting. When there texting all day,everyday, it leads to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury, and sleep deprivation. Teenagers send and receive an average of 2,272 text messages per month and almost 80 messages a day. Dr.Martin Joffe said, "Then you hear that these kids are responding to texts late at night. That's going to cause sleep issues in an age group that's already plagued with sleep issues."

Also Sherry Turkle, a psychologist said that it might cause a shift in the way of adolescents development. "Among the jobs of adolescence are to separate from your parents, and to find the peace and quiet to become the person you decise you want to be," Turkle said. Psychologists want to see teenagers break free from their parents as they grow into autonomous adults.

Texting can be a toll to teenagers thumbs also.  A 15 year old girl name Annie Wagner used to text on her phone as fast as she typed on a regular keyboard. After a few months she noticed a painful crap in her thumbs. But lately she been using the iPhone she got for her 15th birthday. She said texting is slower and less painful.

Greg Hardesty, a reporter in Lake Foirest, Calif., said that his 13 year old daughter, Reina, had 14,528 texts messages in one month. He said she would keep the phone on after going to bed, and switch it to vibrate and would wait for it to light up. After a while her grades dropped and her parents confiscated her phone. Without her phone her grades have improved and they gave her phone back. But her text message limit was change to 5,000 per month.

I think parents shouldn't take the kids phone. Its there responsibility to do good in school and concentrate. Cell phones a privilege. I think if kids are taking advantage of the phone, parents should take them.