Topic : 09/10 Season 6 Premiere!

I honestly think the mother should take the service off the phone.....you can have a phone without texting.....I think it's stupid to be doing something like that and driving....I also think she should have her license taken away......she should not be allowed to drive at all.....I'm a mother of a teenager and she could care less about having a cell phone even though I have one.....I love my phone but I hate getting calls while I'm driving.....I usually don't answer them....I can wait and you know what?....the other person can too!!!!  I do not have texting on my phone and I had the phone company put a block on it for only verizon can text me.....To me you can have a conversation on the phone and it would be better than any text message.....or you can email in the safety of the home.....Not sure how old this girl is but if she isn't over 18, she shouldn't be driving at all....I feel that children should't drive....I got my license at 18 and I feel I did what was best for everyone.....thanks for listening......

I was simply appalled by the attitude of that self-absorbed, smart-alecky, pouting, bored-out-of-her-mind teenager, Chelsea, who was on your show today.  I wasn't much happier with her mother, who claimed she wasn't aware of some of the things that had taken place while her daughter was driving and texting.  I had two aunts killed by a carload of drunken teenagers, the driver being 17 and had JUST days before gotten his license back after a previous drunk driving incident.  Do I have any tolerance for people, whether they be teenagers, young adults, elderly, whatever who believe driving and doing whatever makes them feel good inside their vehicle is their God-given RIGHT, instead of understanding it's a PRIVILEGE?!  Hell no!!!!  I understand that teenagers' brains cannot process certain societal mores like the brains of adults can; however, this particular teenager is obviously a spoiled little princess who has been made to believe that the world revolves around her, and for that I have no tolerance either for her or her mother!  Why on earth did it require a visit to the Dr. Phil Show to "open" the mother's eyes as to what she needed to do in regard to her daughter's unconscionable behavior?  IF she actually does take away that spoiled brat's phone, I seriously doubt that it will stay gone.  Mom is more concerned with her kid not being ostracized amongst her friends than with the safety of the rest of the driving public.  If that were my daughter, not only would there be no phone, she wouldn't be driving either, because she obviously is not mature enough to be allowed the privilege of doing that!  Why are parents today so afraid of their kids?!  What do they fear will happen if they start acting like parents/adults and lay down the law?  That the little brat will get mad?  So what?!  She'll get over it....or not.  I don't want to go off on a "back in the good old days" tangent; however, I honestly and truly do not recall teenagers behaving so self-absorbed, self-centered and totally unconcerned with anyone other than themselves when I was either a teenager or in my 20s or raising my children.  Why do you suppose that is?  I pray your show today opens lots of eyes and saves some lives.  Good job telling it like it is, Dr. Phil!

Chelsea should not be driving! Furthermore her mother shouldn't have the right to be a parent. Only competent and capable people should be allowed to parent. Why do these people think that texting is a right? This is a privledge which can be removed from the cell phone package. Though clearly her mother isn't intelligent enough to see there is a problem let alone figure out how to fix it. When chelsea kills herself and her sister maybe her mother will wake up and realize that she needed to take action, grow a spine, gain intelligence and take away the car and phone. Hopefully the mother will do jail time with her daughter when the time comes (no doubt it will). I wish parents like this were considered abusive and had their children taken away.

  I don't belive the mother will take her cell phone , I do wish Dr. Phil would have told that mother

 something strong like this (  If  YOUR CHILD CAN't  STAND TO BE WITHOUT A CELL PHONE THEN

 MAYBE YOU SHOULD JUST REMOVE THE CAR - UNTIL SHE LEARNS TO DRIVE IT WITHOUT A PHONE

 IN HER HAND )  That mother is letting the girl tell her what she will and wont do .. and if it keeps up it could mean her life or the life of another ...If she does let her keep driveing  and she hits something  we hope it's not a person but I hope the law goes after the mom too ...

I have to agree with another user....Dr. Phil, you missed the boat on this one.  Let her keep her darn phone...TAKE THE CAR AWAY from Chelsea!!  And take her drivers license away until she can understand the consequenses of her actions.

 

I don't believe that Chelsea's mom has the backbone to take away Chelsea's obvious addiction...the cell phone.  If Chelsea is so caught up in her own little world so much that she cannot survive without her text messages, then make life safer for the rest of us out there on the road, TAKE THE CAR AWAY.  Buy this self absorbed little girl a BUS PASS and let her text all she wants safely while someone else does the driving.

 

Also your little driving test was not very convincing to her because you didn't give Chelsea a chance to do the test without the phone as a distraction.  I think you should have had those results made available to prove your point that it was not just the simulation that failed her.

Hope this thoughtless MOTHER and DAUGHTER read the comments. we all know by watching them that neither will change her behavior. mother does not have the parenting skills to take away her precious baby's cell phone. OMG what did we do before cell phones? daughter is self absorbed and immature. need to grow up before driving a car and does not NEED a cell phone. hope I don't live in her town and hope no tragedy falls from this.  WAKE UP !!!

I gave my opinion about getting them phones that would only reach 911. But I never mentioned mom.  Did anyone else notice mom, hello, lights on nobody home. What kind of mother sits there listens  to just the list of things Dr. Phil said she had done while texting and she didn't have brains enough to say (phone gone!!) I wouldn't have even had to hear the young man come out to talk to have me decide and then she still acted like it was a hard job to decide. Bet she doesn't loose her texting cause she has mom wrapped and mom don't seem to me to have a clue or don't seem to care enough. One or the other.

I just got done watching today's show, I am appalled that Chelsea's mom is still second guessing what to do. First of all I don't believe her daughter should have the Right to drive at all. Not only should she have her phone yanked, but also her drivers license. Chelsea proved to me that she is an irresponsible person. But even if her mother doesn't take the phone away, there are ways to stop her daughter from texting, all she needs to do is contact the phone company, and ask that text messaging be removed from the phone.

Quite frankly I believe that Chelsea is just another spoiled brat. I sure hope nobody dies at her hands.

I watched the show today....personally...... I think you should let Chels keep her phone and TAKE AWAY her Drivers License.  Her responses and reactions indicate that she is not matuare enough to be driving on our highways.  Take away her phone....that wont solve the probelm...she will just find something else to distract her when she should have her eyes on teh highway.

 

I am a mother of a 16 yr daughter who has only had her drivers linsce since Sept 6.  I don't allow her

to even have her phone on while driving.  This is the law in the state that we live, but it is also the law

I gave her as a mother!!  I would take this girls car away let her have her phone and let her text all she wants as she waits for the school BUS.