So you want a cell phone?

Dave is brilliant. Just brilliant.

The eight-year-old Pinks want cell phones, just like their big sister. They don't need cell phones.

Every now and then, at the end of the school day, Liberty borrows some random child's cell phone and calls us from the bus to let us know Tori is not on the bus. Then Tori hops on the bus at the very last moment and Liberty calls back to tell us that Tori did not miss the bus after all. In the nine months that The Pinks have taken the bus, Tori has never missed it coming home.

The thing is, cell phones are easily misplaced. If we had an extra phone for the little kids, chances are they'd lose it.

Here's the part where Dave's brilliance comes in.

Today he gave the little kids each a golf ball. They need to keep track of it and at any given time one of us can ask where their "phone" is and they have to be able to produce it within 60 seconds. They don't have to keep it on them, they just have to know where it is. This will show us if they're responsible enough to have a phone.

As I am typing this Tori  has come in here asking if I know where her "phone" is. What do you think?!