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[quote=Anonymous]https://www.thecut.com/article/phones-waiting-parent-groups-jonathan-haidt-awkwardness.html

This article basically sums up the dynamic. You can avoid the paywall with chrome incognito mode.

Understand that older kids have longer activities lasting like 3 hours or more, and you may drive them there but you won't always be waiting during it. So you might want them to be able to contact you. Also there's more carpooling and it's nice to be able to offer or accept rides on short notice.

Also, teens and tweens are terrible social planners and tend to make after school and weekend plans on very short notice. They're not necessarily going to go out of their way to contact a no-phone kid, because they're thoughtless and can barely accomplish any planning without screwing it up. So your kid will be left out, and you and your kid won't even find out about it until after. You might think it's just one outing or get-together, but it adds up and over time your kid is left on the sidelines socially.

You might feel these things are a price worth paying. But other parents may not, despite any pledges they may have signed that they never actually cared about.

Also, you may see an uptick in divorce as your peer group grows older. Older children of divorce have more need for phones because their logistics are more complicated and their parents may want to facilitate easy contact on the days they don't have custody. [/quote]

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