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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mental health -- esp for girls -- is basically linear with respect to age of first smartphone. Girls who got their first smartphone at 18 have better mental health than girls who got their first smartphone at 16, who have better mental health than girls who got their first smartphone at 14...[/quote] +1. If these are her friends, do not cave on social media in 6th grade. These platforms require users to be at least age 13 for a reason. You are doing the right thing for your daughter. Hold off as long as you can. The makeup and clothes you need to decide what’s age appropriate. It’s not unreasonable to tell her that in your family those are things for middle schoolers or high schoolers or whatever works for you. Or you may decide that even at this age they aren’t hills to die on. In our household we would not have allowed them in elementary school even if DD would have asked. [/quote]
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