Smartphones for Kids

You don't have to give your kids a phone...

It would be interesting to know if the mother herself has and uses smartphone. If yes it seems like smartphones for me but not for thee, 14 year is too old to protect from harm of phone usage. It's not too different from fundamentalist parents banning their kids from having outsider friends/watching TV/dating. It seems that the mom is just flexing her power over the kids.

Snark: It's nice for the helicopter parent who also doesn't want their kids exposed to a phone, so it'll probably sell just fine.I suppose because I'm not a parent, I don't have that built in level of worry / paranoia, though I "fondly" remember how fearful my own mother was, but I don't get it. Isn't the point of letting your kid venture out to help them establish and explore freedom and boundaries?You tell your child not to stay out past

Those are 8 year olds. So there is at least the option that parents take the phone away at night.

A general question to parents: Is it possible to raise a kid without a smartphone today?

One lilfehack a parent told me about -- instead of buying your kid a phone, buy them a cellular capable smart watch they can still text / call to some extent.

Teach your kids to not smartphone then.

It's real bad. Delay getting kids a phone as long as possible.

Good luck with that even if true.All you parents posting here how your kids are regulated, ha no there is always a friend with a workaround, you have no idea what they are doing elsewhere.I remember when small cellphone came out (not smartphones, original cellphones) and wealthier parents started giving them to kids, people were freaking out how inappropriate. Then smartphones for kids.I cannot even fathom what kids are exposed to these days before they are even in high school.

A pity you wouldn't let your kids do that. There are still kids today with no cellphone doing their things, and being just fine.