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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of teens here.  Our kids' friends mostly got phones in 6th.  We waited till 7th but we know families who waited till 9th.  Pressure mounts every year.  Get together with as many of your kids friends' parents as you can.  Make a pact to hold off together.  [/quote]
Meh.  This must vary by class.  My kids’ K-8 started asking parents to sign the Wait Until 8th pledge a couple of years ago.  Almost all of the parents in my daughter’s 5th grade class have signed it.  Most 7th graders have phones.  I assume their parents think it’s beneficial for the kids to have them at that age.[/quote]
I'm talking about a group of parents weathering it out together.  Not a school form.  How many parents do you know who thought it was beneficial back when they bought the phone or introduced the iPad - but they regret it later?  I know scores.  I know it's annoying when older parents say, "learn from my mistakes."  But here we are.  [/quote]

I don’t know how many parents thought it was a mistake—they seemed awfully eager to hand the devices over!  It’s been interesting watching it play out.  From what I’ve seen, the kids who have smartphones either ignore the people in the room with them or use the phone to post/text/record inappropriate material.  I’m not sure what part of that parents were excited about, but nobody forced them to give their kid a phone.[/quote]

I brought this up at a tipsy Moms Night Out (in vino veritas) and they basically said their kids would be left out if they werent in the first cohort of kids-with-phones. They want popular kids more than anything else. One mom admitted her 10 year old had found porn but insisted that "he cant be left out when the boys are making plans. He needs that phone." I pointed out that my boy and many other boys in the class had no phones but of course they dont count.[/quote]

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