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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What kind of trashy person lets their 6th grader have a smart phone, and bring it to school, even worse? [/quote]

Lots of people. 6th grade is a middle school year and lots of kids have a phone to tell their parents where they are and to coordinate their grades and homework and get together with friends. [/quote]

This. Cell phones allow kids to start being responsible for themselves. I put it in the same category as knowing how to make a meal for yourself and do your own laundry. Withholding a phone is overprotective.[/quote]

Strangely enough, my 8th grader is able to handle all of his homework, contacting friends, and being responsible for himself without a cellphone. Just like I did when I was a kid. Probably just like you did when you were a kid. Straight A's in all Honors classes, soccer practices, after school clubs, Scouts, and hanging out with friends. He can call his friends on the phone from the house, he can send emails, and he can talk to them in person.

I am really not clear on why parents are so willing to buy into the "kid has to have a cellphone to survive" when the vast majority of us did not have a phone and did just fine. [/quote]

We could also all wash our clothes and dishes by hand because that was a thing once. We live in a world without pay phones and landlines now. I want my kids to learn how to function in the world rather than always looking to some adult to manage their lives. I get that some parents aren’t ready to let their kids have that kind of freedom — and that’s ok — but I think that it is important that my kids understand both freedom and responsibility on my watch, and I think 12-13 is the right time to start giving it to them. We wouldn’t ask any adult to function without a phone. I’m fine with other parents pushing kids from the nest later and I’m fine deferring to the school on how to manage instructional time, but it is a perfectly reasonable parenting choice to give a tween a phone. [/quote]

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