Um... DD1 is 11.5. She hardly calls anyone! Every 3 or 4 months a friend from back home will call her, or if there is a sleep over planned, they might phone each other. But usually I'll either text the parent, or see them at school.

But my kids are in a small school, so they play with the same kids those 5 days a week, then they have sports & spend all day Saturday with those kids. Then us adults will usually get together at least once a week. So they see each other then, and THEN there's after school sports 2 days a week Plenty of time.

I would feel weird too.

DD's friends all have mobiles & facebook... poor deprived DD