10-Year olds with phones

[MrsWhirly]

My DD is 10 in year 5. She doesn’t have a phone, we have said she can have one when she starts Year 7.

Suddenly all her friends have phones. I am allowing them to call and wassup on my phone, which is annoying but the pressure to buy her a phone is so much.

Does your 10yr old have a phone?

@TheDowagerCuntess

Same here! The 6 year old had an old hand me down iPhone 4s without a sim to play games on etc in the car or on a train journey. She was given it at Xmas and proudly went into to the school telling everyone she had a phone for Xmas!

That said she is desperate for a SIM card like her older sister - she's just not having one!

Having a phone for the 10yr olds in my daughters class appears to be wassup, musically and snapchat.

No way I'd be letting a 10YO have those apps.

Me too.

I do agree with this. They're too young for it and we know the dark side of technology.

My 9 year old has one. He gets it twice a week when he goes to a particular activity. In the past its been cancelled and the email didnt come through till almost the end of the class so my DS sat there for almost 2 hours.
I keep the phone for the rest of the week. He doesn't even ask.

You are right, she will spend all her time on it. Like 2 year olds with iPads, it's a shame really.

My 10 year old got a phone a weeks ago, then dropped it and it now doesn't work. It didn't have a SIM in it, but she could still access musically, instagram etc.

It made her feel grown up and she loved taking it to the shops and using it - to 'show off'. She even bought a cover for it.

It wasn't so much the access of the apps that concerned me, it was the almost instant addiction to it. She went straight to it after school and even took it to school on a couple of days, unbeknown to me.

I am SO glad it is broken. I am not ready for her to be 'teen like' with her use of the phone and I am going to pretend it is not fixable (could well be, but I'm not even going to try!)

It depends on the purpose why you should give him a phone. Is it really important?

My 10yo hasn’t got a phone yet but we’ll get her one for her 11th birthday. She tells me she is the only person in her class without her own phone or tablet.