When my son turned 13 we let him get a new contracted iphone as his bday present. A few weeks later we had issues where he had asked a girl from school for a topless photo and he had asked another few girls to be his girlfriend. To show him the severity of his pestering, I had a police officer come and chat with him about pestering and underage pictures etc.The phone was took away for a few weeks then returned on certain conditions inckuding not talking to girls. He got it back and then a few weeks later had a fight and it transpires it was because a girl had turned nasty on him after he asked her out and after some nasty comments on both sides he had told her to 'DIE' so a male friend of hers got peer pressured into a fight. We took the phone off him and he has not had a smart phone for almost two years (he has a basic phone for text and calls with no internet) camera etc.).
Now we are approaching his 15th Birthday I am considering whether to let him have another phone, he feels he's had a rubbish phone for a long time and he's older now so would like an iPhone 7 for his birthday.
I hated taking the phone away as it was his big 13 present but my DH and ex(sons Dad) insisted we remove it to prevent 'giving him the rope to hang himself with'.
I don't want him to be an outcast at school for being one of few without a good phone. He is one of the youngest in his year so as of Sept it's his final year in school.
WWYD??? If he got a phone it would be with his knowledge of me having a parent app on there and him not knowing the passwords for apps etc. My DH and ex again think he could get round this if he really wanted but I say he can anyway because he uses Xbox Live Messenger.
So, would you give him a chance 2 years on?