*I participated in an Ambassador Program on behalf of Influence Central for Virgin Mobile USA which is one of Sprint's prepaid brands. I received two Virgin Mobile smartphones to facilitate my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation. Last year, we finally made the decision to get our older son his first smartphone. He was on the Junior Varsity basketball team at his school and would often need to call me to pick him up as soon as practices were over during the week. We immediately knew that we would have to establish boundaries with regards to phone and data usage as well as making sure that his grades continued to be good. After all, having a mobile phone is a privilege and it should be handled as such. Here we are a year later and now our younger son also has his own mobile device. He's been asking us for one since his brother got one and, since he was diagnosed with epilepsy this year, Hubby … [Read more...]