Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.
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These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.
I didn't use a phone until I was 14.
We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with kids and grandkids.
Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live.
Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.
I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity... my children aren't buying it.