There's a lot to be said about passive resistance. It's a nice little tool to use when nagging your kids gets you nowhere. Besides it saves your voice.
Portable telephones are the curse of our house.
No one ever knows where they are. That is because our children hide them. Not intentionally, just carelessly. We have two, plus a nice, old-fashioned wall phone in the kitchen. Many times I've rushed into my daughter's cluttered room and practically broken an ankle, stumbling over shoes and clothes and books, looking for the phone.