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[quote=Anonymous]Have not read the entire thread but I feel like the Apple Watch has been a gamechanger here. My 12-year-odl kid has the watch so she can call and text me (or friends) as needed but doesn't have access to the internet on demand. She has an iPad at home and texts friends on that too. We can track her location on the watch. She is in sixth currently and while a few kids have phones, maybe 25 percent, the rest have some watch/iPad combo.

We plan to get her a phone when she turns 13 (March of seventh grade) or the summer between 7th-8th so she isn't going into high school never having to navigate using this. No social media, probably no Safari or Google on there initially.

She wants one but doesn't push it, I told her we are watching to see if she is phone ready and part of the way she can show that is getting off the iPad, Switch, etc. when asked.

The other thing that really helps is that other parents seem to have gravitated toward the watch/iPad combo so she's not the only one without a phone. [/quote]

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