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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid has an iphone. When the iphone 5 comes out, he will get the upgrade. He is in high school, 4+ weighted GPA, 4 AP's this year. If a phone makes him happy, I say let him have the phone. Work hard, play hard. Don't work hard, don't get diddly crap.[/quote]

I also have two 4+ GPA high schoolers who got Iphones at 15.  They spend a LOT of time on their phones surfing the internet -- mostly listening to music and looking at websites and youtube for current events and sports and other things that interest them (I do check the history).  It relaxes them on the long car rides to and from school.  One has also downloaded some books (we don't have e-readers).  I am not thrilled about their attachment to the phones and sometimes take it away when I am mad at them.  They rarely text (they are boys) but do communicate with friends through Facebook on their phones.  As for the expense ... DH and I both have Iphones, and when I told my kids they didn't "need" such an expensive phone, they pointed out that we don't "need" a big house, private school, nice vacations, and other luxuries to which we able to treat our family.  Viewed in that context, the phones don't seem like that big a deal to me, and certainly not relative to the amount of pleasure they get from them.  I agree that if they were not doing what is expected of them in school or at home, I would probably come to a different conclusion, and if texting became a distraction, we would put the phones away.[/quote]

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