{"id":2536,"date":"2011-12-07T09:41:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T15:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2011-12-07T09:41:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T15:41:48","slug":"holiday-shopping-gifts-for-tweens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/holiday-shopping-gifts-for-tweens\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Shopping: Gifts for Tweens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to post quite a bit on new little discoveries for the kid set: clothes, outfits, styling your family, new products, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 I sort of miss that aspect of my blog and decided why not change that?!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 So here we are, back with a holiday gift idea that will make your &#8220;I want a cellllll phooooone!&#8221; tween or middle school aged child happy while keeping you happy because you&#8217;ll a) stay on budget and b) maintain some control over how the phone is managed.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Safe cell phones for kids\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kajeet.com\/4u\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kajeet <\/a>is a company that one of my client friends recently told me about and I LOVE LOVE them.\u00a0 I did quite a bit of research on them in the past day or so and I can&#8217;t see a downside to their service.\u00a0 Their cell phones come with parental controls &#8211; I&#8217;m pretty sure the quality of their controls isn&#8217;t matched on the market (I have been looking for months and we finally settled for a value plan by TracFone which I&#8217;ve been mostly happy with).\u00a0 The great thing about Kajeet is that maybe you want your child to fall within a certain budget and allow them only text messaging (no picture messaging) unless they pay for it &#8211; Kajeet allows you to do so, break up the service so your child can add to their own &#8220;wallet&#8221; and have picture messages or other add ons taken out of that fund vs. your monthly bill.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously you need to check it out if you&#8217;re considering getting a cell phone.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll keep the peace of mind knowing you can reach your child wherever they may be with their phone, Kajeet runs on the Sprint network so you know it&#8217;s reliable service and they have such a wide selection of phones I can only imagine there&#8217;s one for every kid on your list.\u00a0 You will have the peace of mind AND the control.\u00a0 Win-win!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kajeet.com\/4u\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Smart Phones for Kids on Sale\" src=\"http:\/\/kajeet.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/homepage-large-tile-frosty-blog.gif?w=576&amp;h=226\" alt=\"Kajeet Cell Phone Service for Kids\" width=\"576\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my client, Dawn, who recommended it to me.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a favorite image from her gorgeous session that I just delivered yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2537\" title=\"Family-photographer-chicago-suburbs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/b097.jpg\" alt=\"professional-photos-family\" width=\"726\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/b097.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/b097-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buying a tween a holiday gift is super easy when you get them what they want.  What they want is easy\u2026cell phones\u2026as a parent it&#8217;s easy to not want to get your teen or tween (or middle school kid) a phone because of the lack of conrol.  Kajeet makes it easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[314,295],"tags":[418,417,674,416],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informational","category-miscellaneous","tag-holidays","tag-kids-gifts","tag-shopping","tag-tween-gifts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}