What age is OK for a Cell Phone?

There are "needs" and there are "wants" in life and in many ways a child cell phone can fit into both categories.

What age is OK for a Cell Phone?

There are "needs" and there are "wants" in life and in many ways a child cell phone can fit into both categories.

Moms Talk

What age is OK for a Cell Phone?

There are "needs" and there are "wants" in life and in many ways a child cell phone can fit into both categories.

Moms Talk is a weekly feature on all Lehigh Valley Patches in which local parents, caregivers and other members of the community are invited to share opinions and advice on parenting topics. This week’s Moms Talk question relates to children and cell phones. Growing up, the right of passage for me was that fateful day when I would be able to get a telephone in my ROOM. For my older son, apparently, it will be the day he gets to walk around with a telephone in his POCKET. He’s only in third grade, and he’s already asking about it. I am pretty sure that the phone in my room came at age 13. Is that what I should tell him? Is a cell phone and an extension off your parent’s house phone really the same thing? I’m not sure… So, here’s what I want…

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Tolstoy

9:57 pm on Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Okay Mother of 1- I just saw that above. I doubt that poster was judging you, she is one of the least judgemental people around. In fact, what may have happened here is a result of what I spoke of- no community among mothers. Thus we all feel judged all too often, and perhaps act in haste. Every morning I am appalled when I read the news, at the constant stream of child abuses, kidnappings, …   more ›