How to get your Phone back

Step 10

Check in with your parents periodically concerning your cell phone usage. Be an active participant in your relationship with them. Don’t be passive and wait for them to come to you. And don’t be evasive. You now fully understand the situation (as a result of performing Part One, above). You know better how service providers extract money from cell phone owners. You know better how to be safe.
Show your parents you know when you are reaching the data plan maximum and how to stop using data until a later time. Explain to them how you now refuse to pick up when you are driving.
Talk about how your improved cell phone etiquette has improved your relationships with your friends.Realize you are not perfect. Realize that you probably will irk your parents with your cell phone usage again in the future, despite all your efforts. A mistake now and then will probably be OK, but what is not OK is ignoring the mistake. What is not OK is playing dumb when the inevitable difficulties do come up. When you do make a mistake, then, go to your parents first. Don’t make them come to you.