re: Petition to "Wait Until 8th [grade]" to buy cell phones

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Why hold your children back just because it is different than what you grew up doing?

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Because I dont think it is holding a kid back to deny a phone. The fact that you continue to go back to it being some type of development milestone tells me plenty.

I think it is more important to teach many, many, many other life skills versus the time that kids spend on their device.

Real talk, for every flip phone there are 10 smart devices. For every parent that takes the device away and it isnt used as a perpetual babysitter there are 10 kids with their heads buried in it all day. For every kid that uses it to text Mom when they get home, there are 20 using some type of social media program, most of which lead to things they hide.

We have too many kids that cant communicate with adults or others. I suspect electronics has a lot to do with it. If I am wrong, who cares, it is just a phone.



90% of parents lead their punishment with "Ill take away your phone" , yeah, it is just a tool when you don't have a landline.