Which mobile phone for 10 year old dd

[kittenfun]

She currently uses my iphone mostly for you tube
I am due to upgrade on fri don't want her using my new phone
Recycling my old phone

Was think of IPhone se or IPhone 6s

IPhone se £15 a month with Tesco
IPhone 6s £17 a mnth

a Nokia brick.

'she doesn't like tablets' - well, she needs to get over herself, doesn't she?

sheesh.

I think regardless of which phone you choose (they're all the same for what she wants it for anyway) it is important that you set up parental controls and that you put your expectations in place right from the start. Giving her a phone of her own is a sign that you trust her, but phones can still lead to a lot of trouble if there are no rules in place

she doesn't like tablets' - well, she needs to get over herself, doesn't she?

Does she?

You know this is a human being right? We don't all like the same things. Just because she is 10 doesn't mean she has to like using a tablet

because she's not the one paying for a very expensive (in my world, at any rate) piece of kit. Obviously.

My point was if she doesn't want a tablet that's fine. Nothing to do with the phone.

Because neither of them are compulsory

She uses mine without parental controls no issues
Recycling mine as can get lots

I'm sorry, but assuming she'll never have a problem with no parental controls is very foolish and irresponsible.

Thankyou pink fizz

potato but getting her an expensive phone just because she doesn't like a tablet is, in my world, pandering to a want, not denying a human right or essential need. There are plenty of things I don't especially like but put up with because what I want is out of my budget. A useful life lesson, I would have thought.

Not pandering
Decided it is time she had her own phone

I agree river.

But why does she need a smartphone, kitten? I understand that kids getting themselves to and from school etc need a phone (need rather than want, public phones being a rarity these days) but a brick would cover that need.

However, as you think parental controls are unnecessary I think we are on completely different wavelengths.

No parental controls is just completely irresponsible parenting. Let's hope she doesn't end up chatting to other "kids" online etc. I think you need a lesson in Internet safety.
Then again your giving a 10 year old a smartphone because she doesn't like ipads, more fool you. You are pandering to her and your setting yourself up for a nightmare. A good lesson for your dd would be for you to say if she wants to use YouTube it's on an ipad or not at all, she needs to understand she can't just dictate to you what she wants and gets it.

Parental controls sorted

@RiverTam That's what I don't understand.

At 10 if she is walking to school alone, a cheap £30 phone will do the job and as for the watching videos and playing games, well that can easily be done on TVs and family computers now as well as tablets where a parent can supervise.

The OP is treating her as if she's 15/16.

At 10 this is all she needs.

www.argos.co.uk/product/6316901

There are much cheaper smartphones than an iPhone. You could get a Huawei or something for a fraction of the price, which will be of great benefit when it's accidentally dropped or smashed. She can still watch YouTube etc. and everything else.

yes, I agree.

OP - you're the adult here, and in charge, both of what your DD accesses online (well done for sorting the controls) and also for what kit you buy for her. If nothing else she surely needs to understand the value of things? The monetary value, I mean.

Ok everyone

I have just sorted parental controls so that when she uses my phone after school she can only access certain apps

Huawei y6 £10 a mnth for 24 mnths sounds good

Huawei y7 36 mnths £11.99
Samsung j5 - 2017- £11.49 a mnth
Huawei smart p £13.49 a mnth

Top one or Samsung j5 are my top ones

A Nokia
Smartphones are awful for kids. They just send I name messages and watch dodgy shit on you tube.
Save yourself the bother of the friendship fallouts, bullying and instabullshit aspiration of her eyebrows walking into a room 10 mins before she does.

My dd (11) has my old iPhone. It was sitting in a drawer. It’s a 5 something, not sure what. She knows that if she wanted something new it’ll not be an iPhone.

She occasionally is home alone (not for long mind) so I like being able to say “on way home now dd”.

Huawei or Samsung

Huawei y6 £10 a mnth
Huawei y7 £11.99 a mnth
Samsung j5 2017 11.49 a mnth