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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids would have had zero interaction with their friends and classmates outside of school without their own phones.  You can stand firm on this, but just know that he'll be isolated from his peers.[/quote]

+1. Social suicide [/quote]

This is INSANE and this is why so many kids are so messed up. We are talking about sixth graders! My phoneless 6th grader has a number of ways to get in touch with her friends — email from family computer after school, arranging plans via parents, calling friends from our landline, talking in person at school and on the bus, walking to a friends’ house after school.

In the short term maybe it requires more work on your part if your child doesn’t yet have a phone. Maybe you will have to get to know their friends’ parents, maybe you will have to install a landline. Maybe you will have to go over other emergency scenarios and come up with contingency plans that are not “call us.” Get your kid a phone if it is easier on you and you don’t want to say no, but to act like they have to have one in order to have friends is suuuuuuper short sighted and wrong. Be smarter than the tech companies, please. Figure something out for the best interest of your kid. [/quote]

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