Number two pencils? Check. Loose leaf notebook paper? Check. Snazzy backpack? For shizzle. Cell phone? PAUSE.



As a mother of three school age children ( three others still in diapers) I knew I would be buried under a mountain of back to school supply lists, uniforms and last minute summer reading reviews but nothing prepared me for the two hour plea from my eleven year old to buy him, dare I say it, a cell phone. I have already been deemed the…