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[quote=Anonymous]DD got a phone in 8th grade. We told her she should have no expectation of privacy. We have the passwords to accounts.

DH works in cybersecurity so he gave her and her friends a lesson on social media and showed them how adults can access their info at any time several years ago. It's not that hard, even with privacy settings, and it is also not that hard for kids to find workarounds if motivated. Both controls help but are not foolproof.

We always have used the Grandma Rule: If you would not want Grandma to see that, you shouldn't post it.

DD also knows that as soon as you write something, it may be used against you, especially by other middle schoolers. She has seen this play out several times with others in large group text chains.

DD tells us most everything and we have used examples from large text chains to try to teach her what we expect from her.

She generally possesses sound judgment but we still monitor occasionally and her phone is put away in a common space at 8pm nightly.

Waiting til 8th was a good decision for us as I feel like DD has matured and is less impulsive than she was in 6th and 7th grade, which is when many of the other kids got phones. YMMV.

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