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re: What age should you get a phone?
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:39 am to lsunurse
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:39 am to lsunurse
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I didn't get my first cell phone until 2001 when I was 23.
Not many people had them back then either IIRC. My parents first got them around 1998 or 1999. My brother got one too around then because he had his license.
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Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:39 am to lsunurse
My kids will get flipphones until they pay for iphone themselves.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:42 am to TH03
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Before, we’d just use pay phones or a friends land line
The payphone was pretty much already gone when I was a kid. I remember seeing a few around, but not anywhere I would be that I needed them. Plus I never had change to use them. They were pretty much only in low income areas from what I remember, but I grew up in a small town.
This post was edited on 7/1/18 at 11:43 am
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:42 am to lsunurse
I had a bag phone in high school. It was like $2 a minute with no plan minutes
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:42 am to gumbo2176
I don’t understand why no one in this thread is suggesting getting their kids a basic phone that just does calls, not an iPhone with data
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:43 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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ll of this by someone who has posted on an internet message board nearly 650 times in 2 months.
True, but I'm retired and there are what?? 12 areas of interest to post to on this site, so that works out to roughly 10 posts a day, many of them 2-3 sentences long, if that.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:43 am to Cosmo
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My kids will get flipphones until they pay for iphone themselves.
Yup or unless I can find super cheap really old iphones.
I've seen these watch/phone things for younger kids. Looks like a watch but is a phone. Very basic though. You program it with maybe 4 phone numbers in it. Think it even has GPS in it in case child gets lost. Something like that isn't a bad idea as well.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:45 am to Mingo Was His NameO
They were almost everywhere I went as a kid. Skating rinks, movie theatres, malls, etc etc.
I’m fairly certain we’re the same age.
I’m fairly certain we’re the same age.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:45 am to Upperdecker
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I don’t understand why no one in this thread is suggesting getting their kids a basic phone that just does calls, not an iPhone with data
A lot are.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:45 am to TH03
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They were almost everywhere I went as a kid. Skating rinks, movie theatres, malls, etc etc.
I don't know maybe I just don't remember them. I always used an adults cell phone as a kid when I needed to call my parents.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:46 am to Upperdecker
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I don’t understand why no one in this thread is suggesting getting their kids a basic phone that just does calls, not an iPhone with data
You must have missed my post about just getting them a flip phone.
They still make them...my dad has one cause smartphones seem too complicated to him. His phone was like $70 brand new. If you get one of trac phone flips(my little brother and mom has one of those)...the phone is maybe $40.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:47 am to TH03
I remember we could make a call on a pay phone with no money by entering my parents home number and a pin. The cost would be on their monthly bill
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:47 am to Upperdecker
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cker I don’t understand why no one in this thread is suggesting getting their kids a basic phone that just does calls, not an iPhone with data
Did you read the thread?
Posted on 7/1/18 at 11:53 am to SmackDaniels
My 3-1/2 year old has her own PixelXL phone. Its setup like a tablet where it only works on wifi.
She uses it like her tablet but works better at bedtime since it's smaller and eaiser to handle and emits less light making it easier for her to fall asleep.
When I'm at work and she misses me, and wants to see da-da, she will call me through the "Hangouts" app located on the home screen.
She uses it like her tablet but works better at bedtime since it's smaller and eaiser to handle and emits less light making it easier for her to fall asleep.
When I'm at work and she misses me, and wants to see da-da, she will call me through the "Hangouts" app located on the home screen.
Posted on 7/1/18 at 12:17 pm to SmackDaniels
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