Age for a kid to have cell phone

yearstogo
Sun, 15 May 2016 14:54:28 +0000

Son is going into 8th grade next year and does not have a phone yet. We will get him one for his one month long summer camp so he can contact us or friends, but is a basic one and the camp limits time to 30 minutes at end of day.

Many parents have great reasons, listed above, to give kids phones but I am constantly amazed that many parents have no idea what their kids on doing on the phones and let them take them to their rooms at night. Also, it is sad to see a group of teens all sitting around, not talking, but each one staring at their phone.