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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 5th grader has a phone as do most of his friends. For those of you who don't allow your kids to have phones, how do they make plans to meet up with their friends?  We have 3 pools in our neighborhood and it's already started, them deciding which pool (among themselves) to go to and then they meet up. Do you all still "schedule play dates for your middle schoolers? Isn't that weird?  My son is out the door every day that it's nice outside and has planned for himself to meet at the basketball courts, pool, or run around in the creek/woods that run through my neighborhood.  None of this (thankfully!!) Is orchestrated by me.  I'm not sure how my kid would have a social life without a phone and I'm sure as hell glad he's not sitting around the house all day.[/quote]

My rising 6th grader uses her iPod kids messenger mainly to communicate with her friends this type of stuff (like the pool example). Or skype with the friends that don’t have kids messenger - but that is more for long conversations.

None if her friends have a smart phone and only two of them (twins) have a phone at all - one of those where you can only call parents. I am planning on getting one of those soon. And one with texts/calls to anyone maybe in 7 or 8th grade. Smartphone when she is a senior… she can use the internet through her iPod or laptop meanwhile.[/quote]

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