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[quote=Anonymous]My graduating 6th grader does not have a phone and I have no plans to get her one. Only one of her closest friends has a phone, and some of her classmates, but by no means all (we're in FCPS). When DD isn't with the family, she is either somewhere with an adult (all of whom have phones), or she is home alone, where we have a land line. I do foresee a time when a phone would give me a greater sense of security (she could call to tell me she got where she was going or whatever), but I am trying to be careful not to confuse a sense of security with real safety. Also, I need to balance any increase in safety with an increase in risk. Kids with phones create entirely different risks (e.g., sexting, cyber-bullying), which in some cases I think can have much more serious outcomes than the supposed harm I would be trying to mitigate by giving her the phone in the first place.[/quote]
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