Age for a kid to have cell phone

thermom
Sat, 14 May 2016 23:42:16 +0000

We got D17 an iPhone on our family plan when she started HS because the school is in the next town over and she suddenly had a lot more activities to coordinate.

It’s my younger D who’s in 5th grade who is trickier. She’s got an iPod Touch so she can have all the “hot” apps and games and not feel left out. We can text via iMessage (it’s very easy to get a cable company wifi signal in this area), she can Skype her grandmother and other friends who don’t have iMessage/FaceTime, and that seems to satisfy her. (Well, she does have her own gaming laptop because she’s a bit of a tech nut, and that gets her some envy from classmates haha, so I don’t think she feels too pressed about not having a phone!)