Cell Phones For Kids

Chris asks…
FOR PARENTS OF KIDS 11 AND YOUNGER KIDS WHO HAVE CELL PHONES?
Why do you let your kids have cell phones?
Who are they going to call?
They are either with you or at school.
So, Why?

Thomas answers:
I’d love to hear the reasoning behind stupid parents giving 7 year olds mobile phones. They don’t need it. No one needs a mobile phone until they start going out by themselves, out with friends walking around town, waling to and from extra-curricular activities and school and may need to use it in case of emergencies. It’s insane for little kids to have them when and if I have kids they won’t be about 13 or whatever age they are when they begin to NEED it. Need is different from want which is want I think the parents who give their whining 7 year olds mobile phones are forgetting, their kids want the phones, they definitely don’t need them and if they do, I think there is a problem.
