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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids without a phone often get left out. Don’t do that to your child. We have a lot of rules around when the phone can be used but not having one makes it so much harder socially.[/quote]

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My child has not experienced this at all.  No phone, no problems.  She has friends and a social life with no drama.  She doesn’t even ask about a phone to be honest.  Her friends don’t have one either though so I’m sure that helps.  They email each other to make plans on weekends and then parents text to confirm if drops offs are needed [/quote]

Well this is a first. I’ve yet to see any tweens or teens use email as their main form of communication. Where on earth do you live?[/quote]

FWIW, my 6th grader asks all the time to "check his email" but he's really participating in a big google chat. He uses the term "email" interchangeably with other formats.

At this point he doesn't have a phone and it seems like some of his friends do, some don't. I still coordinate most of his social activities with his friends parents. He does interact with them online (plays games together while they're on discord or google chat), but so far that hasn't led to them making plans outside of the house. I'm looking forward to that shifting (to him making his own plans and actually leaving the house).[/quote]

That sounds about right for 6th grade. 7th grade is where the big shift happened for us and having a phone became more important socially. Older tweens don’t use Google chat to communicate with each other.[/quote]

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