Missed Calls

In the middle of the night I called the phone. It is my daughter’s phone, but I feel the chagrined modern parent’s need to explain why my 9 year old daughter has an iPhone. You see — she doesn’t really use the iPhone like, well — a phone. It’s really just a smaller iPad in her world. It’s used as an iPod, actually. She likes to watch YouTube on it and TikTok, and we monitor it and limit it, and yadda yadda yadda. But technically it’s a phone, with a phone number…