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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am shocked parents give their 6 graders phones with full internet and social media use. they are 11yrs old. Tell them to go outside and play instead of snapchatting and watching porn.

Oh wait, it is too dangerous to go outside and play. Much safer to give them the entire internet on the phone. [/quote]

This. Middle schoolers do not need smart phones. Flip phones do just fine.

--mother of a 12th grader and a 7th grader[/quote]
Do you restrict your children to only things they need? [/quote]

No. But my conversations with many parents of middle schoolers is that they are under the impression that their children do, indeed, "need" smart phones and that is why they have them. I am simply providing another viewpoint. I hear that middle schoolers "need" them in order to keep up with their friends socially, that they will be outcasts if they don't have them, that they are necessary from a safety perspective, that they have to have them because flip phones are available on their family plan, that increasingly they are used in the classroom.

To all this I say: Nope.[/quote]

I agree and will go further: Not even my high schoolers have smart phones. Flip phones work for them, too. My DC1 tells me he might be the only kid in his entire high school who uses a flip phone. Luckily, he inherited the not-giving-a-crap-what-others-are-doing gene from me.[/quote]

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