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We don’t wait. We tell the kids they can have once when they can buy it themselves. In our experience that usually happens when they are about 17.


Who will teach them how to (not) use them once they have one? I mean things like privacy, phishing, social media risks, addiction, subscription fees, etc.?

I think the possession of a device isn't the risk itself.


The parent has failed if the child can't teach themselves by that age. Besides, as you say, it's not so much the phone itself -- those risks can be learned or taught separately from the phone. (I didn't have my first phone until I was 23, but I'm not a tech-clueless zoomer and grew up with message boards.)




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