13 year old dd just dropped her iPhone 6 (birthday present - 3 weeks old) because her brother threw a football at her causing her to drop it. Replace or not?

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I hesitate because she didn't have a protective cover on it when she dropped it because apparently the case had broken at the side. She tells me this now when she knows it is important to always have a protective case. Why not tell me yesterday when we were in town and I would have purchased another case immediately. So I am thinking she has joint culpability and am tempted to replace with very basic iPhone.....

But, but, but - it was a birthday present, her brother threw a football at her and she is in floods of tears.....

Blazing you have no idea. You sound like my gran!

Get her a samsung...the amount of times I have dropped mine & it hasn't so much as lost the back...

iphones are renowned for breaking easily, and I don't understand for the life of me why you would give a child such an expensive time.

Blazing you have no idea No idea? Why, because she thinks it is daft to give a child an item that is easily breakable & expensive?

My daughter has just been given her first smartphone. It is my old one that I have had for 3yrs. The one that I have dropped many times. We cleared off all my old stuff, and it functions perfectly. I only changed it because the screen was too small for my needs now.

Giving a kid a phone like that screams more money than sense, and saying so doesn't mean I have 'no idea'

the angst about mobile phones and kids reminds me of the angst my parents generation had about ITV

The op has explained that it is a free upgrade phone.

"No idea" because the hand wringing is ridiculous.

No one has gone out and spent £700 on the latest smartphone for a kid, read the OP. It was a free upgrade. So all this "it costs £700 to go to school in Malawi for a year" is ludicrous. No one has actually spent £700 - so what?

Even if parents had the money to shell out £700 on a phone for a child, so what? It's their money and their business. It's a phone for fucks sake, not a crack pipe.

And all this "kids are addicted to phones these days" is also bullshit. No they're not, they use them as an integral part of their daily life because it's the 21st century, and mobile phones, and Internet, and whatever else ARE an integral part of daily life.

My two year old can use an iPad as well as any adult. So what? She also plays outside, and watches TV, and draws, and bakes and runs around in circles and everything else that a toddler does.

Phones are part of life, for children and adults. It's not good or bad, it just is.

By the way, you're not a better parent than me because your child has a cheaper phone you've just got less money

well said undoubtedly

lol @ crack pipe

Loving all the handwringing over the 13yo with an iphone 6

Fancy giving a child something they don't actually need

Would that be an iPipe6 undoubtedly?

All this vitriol and snarking over some people having a different opinion over whether a young teenager should have a high value smart phone! It's just a different opinion, doesn't mean that the person holding that opinion is out of touch, poor, hand wringing, pearl clutching etc. It also doesn't mean that anyone is claiming to be a better parent, for goodness sake.

An iPhone6 is a high value item. The fact that you can get them cheaper than their value on certain contracts etc doesn't stop it being a high value item. They are also small, fairly easily damaged and possibly more likely to be a target for theft. I would hesitate to give such an item to a young teenager (and probably wouldn't), that's all. No judgement or hand wringing from me.

The vitriol and snarking all started with the competitive horror over the fact that a 13 year old has an iphone. Clearly those that hold the view that this is a Bad Thing consider themselves to be better parents than those who think an iPhone for a young teenager is not a massive deal, hence the subsequent posts containing indirect criticism about how such gadgets create rude, antisocial teenagers who cannot hold a decent conversation .

Whenever I see this argument I always remember something I studied in my childhood literature module about how in the 18th century there was a movement of real public concern regarding young men who did nothing worthwhile or of note because they were too busy reading and spending time in libraries. Was a real "problem" apparently. It was recommended that reading be discouraged and more worthy past times taken up.

Why would a 13 year old need such a phone ? I was 29 when I got my first phone and I paid for it myself . So there.

Well I don't think those things Nicki.

I wouldn't give a high value smartphone to a young teenager. I'm not saying that secondary school children shouldn't have a mobile phone, whether "smart" or not. I wouldn't want them to be carrying around anything else that was small, easily breakable and worth £700 ish either. That's not a judgement, just my feeling on it. If I did decide to give my child this type of phone, and they didn't keep it in their case and it broke, I would be disinclined to pay to get it fixed. They could save up for the repairs out of their pocket money.

Well plenty have expressed those thoughts, that you said were just "opinions". The right opinions obviously......

No, not obviously. Clearly it depends on your point of view!

Why does anyone need an Iphone fluffy?

Ds uses his iTouch to make stop start motion movies, face time his grandparents in the Middle East, take photos for the "comics" he creates and who knows what else. Me? I what's app, FB and MN on my phone. He's getting a lot more out of his device than I am.

I would have the football kicker doing some 'sorry about that' jobs for you too! Lil' blighter!! LOL

thank goodness for insurance

and to all the pearl clutchers

have a and try not to let the "pearl clutchers" worry you

I still have angst about ITV ggirl. I am not ancient.

We all have our foibles. DD (3) has her own iPad AND iPhone but I won't allow Lego Friends in the house