So, is this okay?

Would you laugh it off if it were your kid?

A Californian father was left speechless when he discovered his teenage daughter had sent an astonishing 14,528 text messages in one month.

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Greg Hardesty thought there was a mistake with his 13-year-old daughter Reina's online phone bill when it stretched for 440 pages.

"First, I laughed: I thought, 'That's insane, that's impossible'," the New York Post reported the 45-year-old father as saying.

"And I immediately whipped out the calculator to see if it was humanly possible."

Reina's freakish month of texting equates to over 480 messages sent a day — or around one every two minutes for every waking hour.

Thankfully for Mr Hardesty's hip pocket, he had signed his daughter to an unlimited texting plan for $30 [A$42] a month — otherwise he figures AT&T would have slugged him with a $2,905.60 [A$4,113.13] bill.

"A lot of my friends have unlimited texting — I just text them pretty much all the time," Reina explained to her parents.

She said her texting had skyrocketed because she was bored on winter break and admitted to sending a bunch of messages to brag about her enormous effort.

The student has since been banned from sending SMS after dinner.

WOW, that's a lot of messages! I don't text and even if I did, I seriously doubt I would be able to match 1/4 of what she did.

It's good to see that the Father put some kind of restrictions on the texting, but I have a feeling she'll figure out a way to get around it.

text me and we'll talk about it.

It's not all that unusual. Most kids text, instead of talking on the phone or e-mailing or whatever. I was on the phone for hours at a time when I was a teen and my son texts. Not much difference.

"Phones" have long been a "pain" for parents of teens. I find it hard that a parent would let a child text that much without interveening way before that was even possible. Pretty much shows who is in charge of the parenting of this child. Sad very sad indeed. Somehow I would think that kind of excessive use would ban even having a phone that would text. How could this child study, do chores, bathe, even eat or sleep with that obsessive use? Sad very sad.

They manage, these kids are great multi-taskers, they can text and do anything. It's not that big a deal, except to parents who don't want to keep up with how things are NOW as opposed to how things WERE. Times change, people change, it's the norm.