Really? A cell phone for a 9 year old? (teenagers, 9 years old, school)
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I really don't see the problem with kids having a cell phone my daughter is 4 going on 5 years old and she has a cell phone It has a kid finder inside of it so just in case she would wonder away from me or her dad or if GOD FOR BID she got kidnapped we would be able to quickly find her. It also only has 5 buttons that I have programmed so she can only call people that I want her to it is by far the best thing I have ever bought for her and I feel a little more safer knowing that she has it.
Yeah....if only ten year olds could still work....lol
They can, at home. Our 14yr old daughter does extra chores to earn time for her pre-paid phone. Knowing that she will only get one time card each month helps her to manage her use of it as well.
We've got a phone that my 9 year old son uses periodically.
Like for example if i drop him off at swim practice. He's got it with him.
We've also used it while he was outside playing. Instead of me screaming my head off for him to come back, I just call him. A lot quieter and less aggravating.
Are these reasons to go out and purchase him an expensive phone? Not really, but if you've got one laying around, which is what we had, I don't see a big deal. In our case we were paying for it anyway (and it's $12 per month) so might as well use it for our convenience or our child's safety.
The biggest problem with him "having" a phone is that now half the kids he knows are bugging THEIR parents for a phone. They are not too happy with that.
I got my then 9yo Son a phone when he moved in. We are a Cell only family so if i was out for few minutes he would have a phone. I didn't take it to school till he was in middle school. Mostly it stayed at home, when he would be out playing i would have him take it so i could call him home for dinner.
this irritates me too! my kids ages are: 8, 8, 13, 15...when my daughter started middle school, we got an extra phone and called it the "family phone" which was just mainly for her to use when she was staying after school, etc....otherwise it stayed home...when she got in high school, she got to actually keep it as her own phone. My 8 year olds certainly don't need their own phones. they aren't ever at any location that I cannot get ahold of them by a: calling the parents of the house they are at or b: I am there with them anyway....
my 13 year old, going into 8th is ready to have his own actually because he has more freedoms and stays after school with football, school dances, etc....
but yeah, 9 and younger is just ridiculous...not to mention my younger kids would lose it or break it...I think parents just give in to the pressure of the kids saying they have to have it because there certainly isn't a need for it.
but then on the other hand, why is it so wrong just because we didn't have the technology when we were kids?
I really don't see the problem with kids having a cell phone my daughter is 4 going on 5 years old and she has a cell phone It has a kid finder inside of it so just in case she would wonder away from me or her dad or if GOD FOR BID she got kidnapped we would be able to quickly find her. It also only has 5 buttons that I have programmed so she can only call people that I want her to it is by far the best thing I have ever bought for her and I feel a little more safer knowing that she has it.
and does the phone have a phone finder as well for when she loses it? seriously, if someone kidnapped her, do you really think they would let her keep her phone?
People are getting ridiculous with giving cell phones to kids. 14 would be the absolute youngest age that I would even consider giving my kids a cell phone, and even then, it will be a basic, bare bones phone that does nothing but make calls...it will not be for yakking around the clock, and there will be no text messaging or internet.
Actually, I kind of miss the days before cell phones. I miss being able to have nobody get a hold of me at all times. Somehow we survived, not all that long ago, without cell phones.
I really don't see the problem with kids having a cell phone my daughter is 4 going on 5 years old and she has a cell phone It has a kid finder inside of it so just in case she would wonder away from me or her dad or if GOD FOR BID she got kidnapped we would be able to quickly find her. It also only has 5 buttons that I have programmed so she can only call people that I want her to it is by far the best thing I have ever bought for her and I feel a little more safer knowing that she has it.
4 going on 5 and has a cell phone? WHY? A kid at that age should never be without adult supervision, so what is the point of a phone?
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