Age for a kid to have cell phone

me29034
Sun, 15 May 2016 13:14:06 +0000

A couple random comments.

Several years ago my son, now 15, was on a basketball team where the team members set up a group communication on some smartphone app. S was the only one who did not have a smartphone and was not on the chat. The coach was actually using this for scheduling things and I was constantly wondering why everyone else knew about things before I did. We almost missed a couple practices and I was giving S a hard time about not being responsible. Then one time after a game I was just talking to the coach and he made reference to the group and how helpful it’d been to be able to use it. The lightbulb went off and I realized what was going on. Coach was shocked to realize we weren’t on it and stopped using it. As I asked around I found that the other parents all thought everyone was on it and several were actually mad at us that the coach had to revert to email and couldn’t use the app for group communication anymore. I think this was when S was 12.

On the subject of 101 courses, my soon to be freshman D is in the process of scheduling classes for next year and I was surprised to find that the numbering system is completely different from the traditional 100 level intro courses, etc. Someone going to her school would have no idea what a 101 course is.