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Cellphones for 4-Year-Olds? No Thank You!

My SD Moms September 24, 2014

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images (1)All kids, at some point, start begging, pleading, and pestering their parents for their own cellphone. As a mom with a 4-year-old, I assumed I had some time before the whining and wheedling commenced … but it turns out, I might be wrong.

 

Over the weekend I saw tons of ads on TV for “smartphones for kids,” showing what looked like happy 8-year-olds texting away. Which was bad enough … then, online, I stumbled across AT&T’s FiLIP wearable phone, touted as “perfect for kids 4 through 11.”

 

Four? Really? My own daughter has just turned 4, and the idea of giving her a cellphone, wearable or not, seems insane. Why? Oh, let’s think about that for a moment.

 

Read the rest of the article at the link below and see how you feel.

 

 

Cellphones for 4-Year-Olds? No Thank You! | The Stir.

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