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re: What age should you get a phone?
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:06 am to gumbo2176
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:06 am to gumbo2176
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Kids break and lose shite all the time. Why would a cellphone be any different than losing a coat, book bag, toys, etc. or breaking stuff they have?
I guess they shouldn't get any of those things then. Same with toys when they're younger.
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Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:06 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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Oh so it was 14 years ago when things weren't anything at all like they are now? Got it.
Hey, do with your kids like you want. If you want to spoil them and open your wallet to be drained with their every whim, go for it.
And if you have any kids who are 14, I'm sure you have disappointed them more times than you like to think. They are resilient and will get over life's little things they think is unfair at times.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:12 am to SmackDaniels
If the kid is in sports,dance,whatever and you are dropping them off at practice maybe just get them a basic cheap flip phone if you think they are too young or don't deserve a smart phone?
My friend has a 14 year old and an 11 year old(both girls). They had older, cheap iphones my friend bought used. Then the 14 year old got in trouble and the iphone taken away and replaced with a flip phone as her punishment. She then blackmailed the 11 year old to let her use her iphone to message her friends on instagram. This resulted in 11 year old getting her phone taken away and also replaced with a flip phone.
My friend has a 14 year old and an 11 year old(both girls). They had older, cheap iphones my friend bought used. Then the 14 year old got in trouble and the iphone taken away and replaced with a flip phone as her punishment. She then blackmailed the 11 year old to let her use her iphone to message her friends on instagram. This resulted in 11 year old getting her phone taken away and also replaced with a flip phone.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:13 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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I guess they shouldn't get any of those things then. Same with toys when they're younger.
We're talking cellphones here. I was just making a point that kids lose shite and I'd rather them not break or lose a $200+ cellphone. Young kids don't appreciate the value of money or what it takes to make it.
But hey, if you want to buy your kid the latest, greatest cellphone, go for it. It's your money to spend, or throw away any way you like.
I only offered my opinion on the subject. Seems your results may vary.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:14 am to gumbo2176
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Young kids don't appreciate the value of money or what it takes to make it.
Maybe Your kids don't appreciate the value of money.
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But hey, if you want to buy your kid the latest, greatest cellphone, go for it.
No one said that, Capernicus.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:15 am to gumbo2176
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$200+ cellphone.
A new iPhone is 1k or more
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:17 am to yellowfin
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A new iPhone is 1k or more
This dude is obviously still living in 2004.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:19 am to SmackDaniels
My parents gave me a flip phone when I started driving and said make it last. Bought my first iPhone when I could afford to get on my own plan.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:19 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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This dude is obviously still living in 2004.
I bet he thinks he can still a phone for basically free now by signing up for a phone plan
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:20 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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No one said that, Capernicus.
Tell me the truth Mongo, do you even have kids or are YOU still the kid living at home off the parental tit?
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:21 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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I guess they shouldn't get any of those things then. Same with toys when they're younger
Came in to pretty much post this.
Seems like gumbo puts money ahead of his kid's safety.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:23 am to lsunurse
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I bet he thinks he can still a phone for basically free now by signing up for a phone plan
He probably thinks his daughter is going to ask for Ashleigh Simpson tickets for her birthday this year.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:23 am to SmackDaniels
14.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:23 am to BurningHeart
Wonder if he realizes pay phones are a thing of the past.
So if something happens, you are relying on the kid having to beg to use someone else's cell phone.
So if something happens, you are relying on the kid having to beg to use someone else's cell phone.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:25 am to SmackDaniels
I’d give my kid a basic phone with no data to start, around age 10. Just calls and maybe texting. Give them full capability after a few years of good behavior
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:32 am to BurningHeart
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Seems like gumbo puts money ahead of his kid's safety.
Seems I've touched a nerve with all the younger posters in this site that have grown up with phones in their hands 24/7.
Again, what a parent, or parental figure decides to do with how they raise their kids is their business just as long as they aren't doing anything to harm the kids. Not having a cellphone may seem like an unbearable thing to many of your generation, but it really isn't.
Many of you frickers will have a total meltdown if technology suddenly got blindsided and the electronic grid went off-line. Oh the horror of it all.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:34 am to gumbo2176
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Seems I've touched a nerve with all the younger posters in this site that have grown up with phones in their hands 24/7.
Again, what a parent, or parental figure decides to do with how they raise their kids is their business just as long as they aren't doing anything to harm the kids. Not having a cellphone may seem like an unbearable thing to many of your generation, but it really isn't.
Many of you frickers will have a total meltdown if technology suddenly got blindsided and the electronic grid went off-line. Oh the horror of it all.
All of this by someone who has posted on an internet message board nearly 650 times in 2 months.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:35 am to SmackDaniels
I would say 15 when you get a learners permit, but maybe earlier since pay phones are all but gone. I got one at 15 so I could call my parents to pick me up. Before, we’d just use pay phones or a friends land line.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:36 am to gumbo2176
See, you're wrong again gumbo.
I'm not the younger generation and definitely did not grow up with a cell phone.
I'm just able to see the benefit of my kids having one.
I'm not the younger generation and definitely did not grow up with a cell phone.
I'm just able to see the benefit of my kids having one.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:36 am to gumbo2176
I didn't get my first cell phone until 2001 when I was 23.
Yet if I had a kid I would want them to be safe. Cause I realize the world isn't like the world I grew up in. And could see situations where them having a phone would be necessary.
Does that mean they have to have the latest, greatest, most expensive smartphone? No.
Yet if I had a kid I would want them to be safe. Cause I realize the world isn't like the world I grew up in. And could see situations where them having a phone would be necessary.
Does that mean they have to have the latest, greatest, most expensive smartphone? No.
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