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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a serious question because I am facing it now with my 9th grader: for those of you who buy your kids smart phones instead of dumb phones with keyboards and texting, why did you make that choice?

DC says virtually all classmates have smart phones, and in this case, I don't think it is an exaggeration. [b]I get that not everyone has the same principled objection to them,[/b] but I sincerely want to know why parents make the positive choice of a smart phone.

Will be phone shopping for DC this week so very interested - and not snarky, promise. [/quote]

What is your principled objection?  I got them for my kids because I can't see why not, it's not a financial hardship, I don't see them as something all that great (would rather have a great bike than a great phone), I can monitor them through the cloud functions. Just never saw any reason to say no n[/quote]

What I meant was that many people have listed reasons [i]against[/i] buying a smartphone; I wanted to know the reasons in favor (other than just "why not?", which doesn't make sense to me, either, given the various risks listed above.

Would you please enlighten me vis a vis monitoring via the cloud?  How does one do this?[/quote]

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