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Hey, Mom and Dad. When Should Kids Get Their First Cell Phone?
Parents, Patch wants to hear from you on the questions that get families talking.
Welcome to "Hey, Mom and Dad"—a weekly feature in which we ask our Facebook fans to share their views on parenting. Every week we get the conversation started by taking a look back at a question we asked parents the week before on Patch Facebook pages from around the area: Your child is 10 years old and insists he needs a cell phone in his life to keep him safe and in constant contact with his friends. What do you do? Run out and put him on the family plan? Or, tell him to wait until he can get a job and pay for it himself? That leads us to this week's question: Take a look at what people had to say and join the conversation in the Comments section. Margaret Postmus VerVelde: Freshman year for sure. My youngest got one in 8th grade so we …
Lisa Kuban
12:32 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
I gave my children cell phones once they understood how to use them. They take them whenever they are away from us and we have a standard rule if you are ever anyplace you feel uncomfortable you excuse yourself, go to the bathroom and text us that you want to come home. We will come get you and make up an excuse so that there are no hard feelings with whom you were with and so we can handle the … more ›