all x 3 kids have asked for mobile phones "with a camera" for Christmas...

[cutekids]

they are 9,8 and 7.
my Mum told me to tell em where to get off....!
they get "spends" from family members every week. do I succumb and tell em to pay for their own credit or do i just say 2"no"!?!
(Carphone Warehouse cheerfully told me back in April that we had such a good credit rating that we could have "at least another x 3 phones under contract".!!!!Anyone have any good advice? Or are they still 2 young?!?

No too young.

My dad recently offered me his old phone for Dd1 (9), and I said thanks but no thanks. Have told her she can have one the birthday after she starts secondary and thats what I am sticking too.

Public transport, and society, are not what they were when we were kids either

DS2 is 14 now, and after having had several phones since Y7 and lost the lot (he's a casual sod)(never loses his ipod though ) he doesn't have one and I hate it when he's out eg all day Saturday and I have no means of getting in touch with him.

(Actually the worst thing is imagining him being duffed up by someone wanting his phone and not believing he hasn't got one - how ironic is that )