> Know that you are helping them just like our parents were when they made us eat vegetables (which you know, are actually pretty darned good - thanks, Mom). "

"Eat your vegetables" is hardly the right analogous situation to cellphone use.

I can't imagine what my life would be like if my parents instead decided not to buy a PC (circa 1994), nor have the internet because of all the bad things that a child could be exposed to via the internet.