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(10,941 posts)her with 200 minute card to put on it monthly. If she overshoots the 200 minutes she would have to be personally responsible for buying additional minutes. That would provide her with a means of communication while making her responsible for how she uses her minutes. If blows her minutes chit chatting with her girlfriends and then has no minutes to call, for example, the doctor for the baby then it is her fault not her parents. And I definitely would make it a very basic, no frills phone. No ability to text, get on the internet, etc. She would wipe out her minutes in no time.
The whole purpose of a small apartment is to position her to have to become responsible. If she just lives with her grandparents or parents it becomes to easy to dump the baby on someone else to go out with your friends. When my sister had two children before she was 19, my parents helped make sure that they had the necessities. They lived with my sister's mother-in-law (my sister told my parents that she was a lot more fun the my parents). My sister changed her tune after living with her mother-in-law for a while. While the lady was nice, she was kind of a fruitcake. And my mother was willing to help my sister by watching her children so that my sister attend her college classes. Her equally young husband was working and going to college as well. Trust me, neither of them were running around partying. They became full time parents and had to develop the skills to succeed in life and they did. Both their kids turned out really well.