Age for a kid to have cell phone

dentmom4
Sat, 14 May 2016 23:56:00 +0000

D16 is the last of her classmates to get an iPhone and that won’t appear for another 3 weeks when she graduates. She has an iPod and a flip phone that has been enough.

For our kids, S05 got a flip when he started driving and an iPhone in college, D12 got a flip the spring of 8th grade, because the swim coach let them out of practice with a 2 hour window and I refused to wait that long when we lived 8 minutes from the pool, and an iPhone when she started college. D16 got a flip at the end of 8th grade. S07 has autism and he had a track phone for many years for emergencies. He got an iPhone 2 years ago and loves it.

The older sibs want the same rules for D16 as we had for them and I’ve done pretty well upholding them. I will say that none of the dentkids are as addicted to their phones as their friends are.