If you asked Nathaniel what he wants for his birthday or Christmas, the answer reliably and consistantly comes back that he’d like a cell phone.

Why? I’m not entirely sure.  He doesn’t call anyone from our house landline, he doesn’t text anyone, he doesn’t use the email account I set up for him, I’m not sure who all these sudden burning calls are going to be made to.

But he wants one.

And I bleed out of my heart to make the happy for my kids. I’m so weak.

I do know that I love my phone, the convenience of it makes it hard to remember a time when I didn’t have one.  It took Peter’s car breaking down on the side of the interstate, in the dark, in bad weather for us to make that decision.  We’ve never gone without since.

So, I’m considering it.  I’m thinking that he could be responsible for it and follow some strictly set up Rules of the Ring.

In looking at different options, I was given the chance to check out Kajeet, a cell phone company for kids and parents.

There were things I wanted in the phone service I would get for Nathaniel.

I’m not worried about having fun games or cool ring tones.

I want control over who he’s calling.

When he’s calling.

And who calls him.

I want a GPS locator that I can access at any time, non-reliant on the phone company to track it for me.

Kajeet offers all of these features.  JOY!

Kajeet has a Time Manager that allows you to set up when the phone can be used…say, if you don’t want to worry about your kid texting during science class, you can make it so.  OH THE POWER!

You can set it up to bill separately! Get this: you can have Kaeet bill you for calls to parents, grandparents or whoever, and have it bill your child for calls to friends or text messages.  Making them responsible for how they chose to utilize their phone time.

They also have a fantastic feature that gives you the capability to block any incoming calls or texts that you don’t want.

As for the GPS, Kajeet has a web-based service to find your kid’s phone.  Anytime, anywhere, and you can even have it programmed to alert you at a scheduled time of the day.

Kajeet’s coverage is on Sprint’s PCS network, so there’s not a whole lot of worry about coverage.  The phones they have available aren’t kiddy phones, they have a wide variety of flip phones, picture phones and phones with QWERTY keyboards.

I think Nathaniel’s going to be pretty happy with either his Christmas or birthday present this year.  I also think I’m going to be pretty satisfied with what I get out of it too.

**And as a special offer to you: Kajeet is going to give all my readers a special $10 airtime bonus with the purchase and activation of a Kajeet handset.  Just use the code “Bonus10″