[LakeCleElum]

This is a huge problem. My friends daughter is doing a college project on "Connection Addiction"...I'm no parenting expert and offer no solution. BUT

For others, I'd say don't let the child have a phone till more like 17 or so. Send him off to work on a farm for the summer. When I was 15, I got a job working in a service station 7 days a week. I had two day off a year. Christmas and Thanksgiving. When it snowed, I was us at 3:30 to have it shoveled by hand before school.

I thought I had it made, I didn't have to go to church 5 times per week and didn't have to work on the farm. When I started college, I had my 1st 2 years paid for (including living expenses), a car and a motorcycle. After 3 weeks of college, I was bored and go 30 hr week job there....By the time I graduated, I had put 50% down on my 1st house......

At the age of 14, your son needs to be out mowing lawns and have a real job in the next year or two.