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[quote=Anonymous]It depends on the kid. I have a kid in college who I bought a laptop when she entered 9th grade. It worked out great. She mostly did homework on it and she was not a big gamer or even very tech savvy, so we had no issues  monitoring her usage. My middle child is in 9th grade and and I would not get her a laptop under any circumstances. She figured out how to manipulate the parental settings on her LeapPad when she was 5 or 6 and I knew I was in trouble. She is a very tech savvy... she knows how to operate EVERYTHING electronic in our house. I have to have her leave her phone in my room in the evenings or she would get nothing done because she plays games, watches videos, chats with her friends, etc. We have a desktop and printer in a designated office area off of the living room. She and my youngest do there homework in there because if she went to her room to do her homework it would never get done. Honestly she rarely uses the physical computer because she has figured out how to do all of the functions of the computer on her phone (how I don't even know). I love that she is so computer literate and interested in technology, but I hate that it makes her almost impossible to parent as far as the technology is concerned. Kids today have SnapChat, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Kik, and on and on and on. They can get into a lot of trouble if you are not monitoring their usage and being aware of what they are doing. [/quote]

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