It hap­pens to be for an iPhone but the rules all still apply if you don’t have a “i” in front of your mobile device of choice.

There’s 18 points on the con­tract, all of which are great. I par­tic­u­larly like:

1. It does not go to school with you. Have a con­ver­sa­tion with the peo­ple you text in per­son. It’s a life skill. *Half days, field trips and after school activ­i­ties will require spe­cial consideration.

2. Turn it off, silence it, put it away in pub­lic. Espe­cially in a restau­rant, at the movies, or while speak­ing with another human being. You are not a rude per­son; do not allow the iPhone to change that.

3. You will mess up. I will take away your phone. We will sit down and talk about it. We will start over again. You & I, we are always learn­ing. I am on your team. We are in this together.

I don’t know about you, but I see more grown adults hav­ing issues with their mobiles these days than kids. Com­mon sense and basic rules of inter­ac­tions are thrown out the win­dow by peo­ple who oth­er­wise should know better.

*The site is cur­rently down so here’s a cached ver­sion of the page in case the link above doesn’t work.

Via tuaw​.com