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Parents of lemmy, at what age did/would you give a smartphone to your kids ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by red_pigeon@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

Chaperoned a group of 13-14 yo 8th graders to a school-organized out-of-state civics trip. Only one kid out of ten didn't have a smartphone. 🤷🏻‍♂️

We got ours a flip-phone around 11 to coordinate after-school pickup, then a smartphone at 13, mainly because of involvement in cross-country and wanting to know where the kid was. Social apps or gaming with strangers will be disabled until 16.