Birthday present for to be 13yo dd?

[Counterstrike]

Should I get her a blackberry, and if so what make?? Or something else?

Mine already preferred money by then.

Blackberries are defo in,the Curve is the cheapest.
My nearly 13 yo dd demands bags/shoes from a fella called 'Paul's Boutique',not as dear as a BB

Yes, all her friends have pauls boutique bags but she doesn't really like them xx

Has she asked for a Blackberry?
Have you tried an HTC Wildfire or Galaxy (Android iphones)

If you do get her a BB,counterstrike,get ready for the 'pings' every time someone messages...ping ping ping ping all bloody night!

kangas yes
and lol crazynanny dw if I do itl be on silent ;)

er,yes? she said blackberry but not sure

Has she investigated them?? Or is it just her friends havethem. As a teacher and mum of a 14 yo dd, dem blackberry's are very nickable (and she will take it to school).

think she mostly wants bbm, most of her friends have them but she has surfed the net looking at diff phones.

buump.

I thought only businesspeople had Blackberrys. Why does a 13 need one, just for texting? Get her a normal phone- an iPhone or LG touch if it has to be fancy.

Others, Jack Wills clothes (if she wants a BB she'll probably like those), random things like books and CDs.

Quirrel, what your saying is there is no reason for a 13yo to have a 100odd pound phone(blackberry) but every reason for a 400 quid one?(iPhone)

I can just about afford the BB...Iphone?

Counterstrike-
I hadn't realised that there was that much of a price difference (plus you don't have to get iPhones new- why not try the Apple reject shop), but the iPhone does have tons more for a 13 year old- games, films, music etc. The BB is more for people with hundreds of business contacts who need to send emails because their messages are long and wordy.

But yes, I hadn't realised that it was so much more expensive. Another phone, then.

My DD had her ears pierced and tickets to the Black Eyed Peas for her 13th!

Have to say round here Blackberry is the phone of choice, the iphone is so like yesterday ( for teens)

RatherBeOnThePiste the iphone is so like never for my teen

hmm..well she already has an iPod touch so she really doesn't need an iPhone. Any other ideas ;)

My dd has just had a book about The Beatles and a t-shirt for her 14th birthday. All this talk of Blackberries and i-phones and so on for children amazes me tbh. It sounds like you'd be spending the money for the sake of it to me and I don't understand why anybody would do that.

Pulls judgey pants firmly up and wanders off.

I don't think expensive phones etc are great for kids (I really thought the iPhone had gone down in price anyway), but since the OP was asking about it, I suggested an alternative. Better to have a stupidly expensive phone you can do lots of things with than a stupidly expensive phone that's just a status symbol.

You can spend a lot of money for kids' birthdays and still not spoil them (i.e. the rest of the year). Obviously the OP isn't just giving out money without thinking about it, it's a birthday present. I was pretty surprised- at 14 I was getting things like books and little things, but that's what I wanted. I didn't want a phone. If I'd have wanted a phone, it would have been different, regardless of the huge price difference. So it is about getting stuff you're going to love rather than keeping up with those dratted Joneses.

She doesn't get spoilt for the rest of the year, I just buy her clothes and essentials ect ect. She is very into books but she already has leftover vouchers

Leftover book tokens? Am v !

Have you decided what you're going to get her? DD2 claims to want to buy a new phone with her birthday money from relatives (although she has a perfectly workmanlike one already) but I don't think I'd want it to cost more than 40 pounds or so. Then again, I can't get excited by the dratted things at all, so I may be way out of the loop in terms of how much they cost!