When Should Your Child Get a Cell Phone?

Cell phone use is incredibly common these days. And lots of kids are picking up mobile phones - for calling, texting, and playing games. So, it certainly won't come as a surprise when your child saddles up to you and sweetly asks, "Mom, can I get a cell phone...pleeeeaaaase?" The answer, of course, isn't so easy. There are a multitude of reasons both for and against kids having access to cell phones. On the con side, there's the cost and the responsbility. On the pro side, there's the ability to get in touch with your kid at a moment's notice, as well as the utter ubiquity of cell phones in culture right now. But its that really reason to get your kid a mobile? Dana Loesch of Mamalogues asks the panelists, "When should you get your child a cell phone?"

Category:

Education

Tags:

• cell phones for kids
• children talking on phone
• children texting
• momversation
• kids and technology
• parenting

[ClansAreDrama]

WARNING: IF U LISTEN TO HER OR YOUR KIDS WON'T TALK TO U :[[

[XxOtakuxCreamxX]

im 10 years old and all my friends have a phone already.I get really pissed off when they brag about it.......

[joroyo97]

I like the chinese lady's idea

[TheWakeboard99]

I'm 12 and I have a blackberry

[Nerfer998]

I'm in da seventh grade, got no phone. Most of the time, cell phones turn kids into ignorant pricks.

[CueChloeMuse]

I was 5 when I got my first phone. I got it before we went on a big vacation because I'd be spending a lot of time with my family sometimes without my mom and she liked to check up on me. Although I wasn't really allowed to call anyone. Now i'm 11 and I'm getting the iPhone 4S soon!!

[xxpr3ttigurlxx]

I have had a phone. 5th grade is when i got mine. and now i am in 7th.. anways MERRY CHRISTMAS! kinda random!

[prettygirlrock46]

im 12 i Dont got a phone :/

[traxxas35]

im 14 and i can get what ever phone i want just as long as i can afford it and pay for it myself, so im getting an iphone 4s and im not just saying that..

[Raintota]

@LaRachellLovee yeah! ur lucky how ur parents said you'll get 1 on ur bday.. my parents said i'll have 1 when i'm 16!!!!! omg that's 5 years later!!!