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Parents of lemmy, at what age did/would you give a smartphone to your kids ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by red_pigeon@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We gave my son a smart phone at 8, because his mother and I lived in different states and he flew as an unaccompanied minor a LOT. I also lived in Oakland and I wanted to be able to reach him and to know where he was when he was with me.

We had strict rules about when he was allowed to have it on and when he was not allowed to NOT have it. We also didn't get him a data plan and made him use Wifi.

As a result of him actually being impressively responsible with that phone, we turned on the data and relaxed the rules probably years earlier than we would have under other circumstances.