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[quote=Anonymous]A few years ago, the average age was 12. Now it's 10. (I just looked this up because I have a 10 year old starting at a private middle school next year in 5th grade). My plan had been 7th grade and I'm going to hold on to that as long as I can. I went to a parenting seminar recently, and the speaker said that you should try to delay it as long as you can, but when their peer group start getting phones, give serious consideration to also getting your child a phone. They do organize most things socially on them these days. So I hope I'm lucky in that my son's peer group is a later in getting phones. He has to have an ipad for this school, and that will give him imessage for use at both school and home, and anywhere he's got wireless. I hope that's enough for now. [/quote]
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