Age for a kid to have cell phone

carachel2
Sat, 14 May 2016 20:20:47 +0000

Our kid got a phone when we needed her to have a phone. Not when she wanted one.

She was in 5th grade and I was headed back to work. Her dad would arrive home about 45 minutes after she did so I needed her to be able to text me when she was home. I worked in family practice at the time and wanted to feel that subtle text alert/vibration in my lab coat pocket rather than be interrupted with a phone call. So we got her a phone that could text and call only. She did not need a data plan, an iphone and the internet.

We got her an iPhone in 7th grade and even then it was a hand-me-down.