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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 5th grade b/g twins don't have cell phones.  Originally I had said we'd get them phones for middle school but now I'm hoping to delay them another few years. 
As it stands, they walk home from school with friends several days per week.  If they need to call me after school (exceedingly rare) they borrow a friends' phone or call from the school office. 
They're both in travel sports so they're busy most afternoons.  After practice they come home and do homework.  On the weekends they have a ton of sleepovers and play dates so they're very social kids.   I know they're exposed to things on friends' phones but I 
really don't want them on Instagram constantly like I see so many kids.   Am I being realistic?  Anyone else delay phones or at least smart phones until 7th grade+?
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We held out until 9th grade, at this point it became logistically necessary because I was no longer picking DC up after school.  And the iPhone shares apps with the family so DC can not load Instagram, Snapchat, Kik, etc. unless I allow it.  Which I do not.[/quote]

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