Jabber and I took the landline phone out of our bedroom when he worked nights. We stopped keeping a cell phone in our bedroom when our son left home. We decided that a real emergency...well...we can't help. In a real emergency you call the cops or an ambulance, not your parents. If he just needed to cry on someone's shoulder or needed a ride or whatever? Jabber has a saying, "Failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part." Finally, if something horrible (God forbid) were to happen? Well, again, we can't help and cops don't call you if there is a death, they come to your door.
