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You can do this. I do. Known numbers only and whitelist school, doctor, etc. If you really wanted to go further you could have a second number via google voice

• watwut 4y ago
  The teacher from school or preschool will call from basically random phone. Possibly own phone. Or whatever office she is in phone. Camp counselor always calls from own phone which is fairly often different one then where you are supposed to call. Neither of these calls often. Maybe once a year you get call like that. But when they call, you really want to pick up.
• andrewljohnson 4y ago
  I just can’t… it might be some counselor’s random cell phone calling me. Plus the kids go to many camps per summer, and many activities during the year, so I’d be constantly updating my phone book even if not for the main issue.
  • layer8 4y ago
    Kids survived perfectly fine in the past without their parents being available 24/7.
    • happimess 4y ago
      Many summer camps require that you be available to retrieve your kid if e.g. they start showing Covid symptoms. I'd love to drop them off and forget about it, believe me.
      • lodovic 4y ago
        But you can still let these people contact you, just not real-time. An hour or two delay should be perfectly acceptable. When they're on camp far away, does it really matter?
        • happimess 4y ago
          these are day-camps.
    • andrewljohnson 4y ago
      It seems disrespectful to my wife and the camps to refuse to be available for emergencies.
    • misterprime 4y ago
      The kids that survived, survived perfectly fine. The kids that didn't survive were buried and no longer interact with us.
      • adamdusty 4y ago
        Unless you as an individual are somehow more equipped to deal with emergencies than camp staff, I'm not sure being reachable would make any difference. I would hope in a real emergency, the first call would be to the appropriate emergency service regardless.
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  • happimess 4y ago
    I am also a parent coming on the end of a summer, and whitelisting people who _may_ contact me about my child sounds like a nightmare.
  • stevage 4y ago
    I guess you could get a dual Sim phone and only give out the second number for that kind of situation.
• v-erne 4y ago
  Few years back brother of my spouse took his wife to Spain (thousends kilometrs from here) to drive around and see some sights. At some point they got a flat tire and while he was trying to fix it two nice gentlemans on motorbikes took everything they had by force (including phones). My spouse brother managed to borrow a phone frome some stranger that was driving by. And when he tried to call the only number they both could remember, his fathers, he did not answers. Can You guess why? Thats right - he also had a policy to not take phone calls from unknown numbers (especially foreign). They had to go to ours country ambassy in Spain (which took a while) and beg for help. Since that day his father answers all calls :)
  • elenaferrantes 4y ago
    You can leave a voice mail. I don’t answer to unknown number anymore due to heavy phone spam. My thought is "if it’s really important they will leave a message".
    • coliveira 4y ago
      That's the sensible answer. Nowadays it is crazy to answer the phone. If the message is useful to me then I respond.
      • v-erne 4y ago
        Thats interesting - I have two phones (with different numbers of course) and I almost get no spam calls (maybe a bit on the company phone but its still very low number). I must be doing something right here :)
    • v-erne 4y ago
      Generally that seems like a good idea. In case of father from my story somehow this was not possible - I do not remember why - either he had voice mail turned off (it could have been paid service at that time) or he did not know how to use voice mail.
  • namaria 4y ago
    112 is way easier to remember then anyone's family member numbers and way more effective in emergencies.