At what age would you give your child a phone/electronic devices?

When they are going to secondary school but it would be a Nokia 3210
They would get their first smartphone when they are going to sixth form

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At 11 they'll have a simplistic phone for getting in touch with me but they won't have any gadgets or anything until they get a job and purchase them themselves. There will be a computer in the house they can use for learning purposes and I'll help educate them on how to properly research, good websites to use for citation and how to avoid plagiarism. I'll also ensure they only go on appropriate websites.

I want my children to focus on having an actual childhood going out with friends, enjoying sports and being healthy. My children will have very little time for such anyway. They'll be in school, then they'll get private tuition and then will be made to take up a sport/exercise and something like a musical instrument of their choice.

I have no idea..definitely not before the age of 13 though.

I would never give my children any electronic devices. I will wait for them to grow up and get it for themselves, earn their own money if they're going to splash it on malignant junk like that. I think Steve Jobs is diabolical for generously circulating his pestilential carcinogens around the world and denying his darling children the same. The more fool the world, of course, but Steve Jobs is still a massive bollox.

Such dilemma I'd rather not give them one at all, but if I don't, they'll probably be much less tech-proficient than others their age.

JAYSUS lets be real here if youre in your teens theyre gonna get an electronic device of some sort before 18.

When they are going to secondary school but it would be a Nokia 3210
They would get their first smartphone when they are going to sixth form

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Maybe so but they can finance it themselves. I shall not be purchasing any electronic device for them other than a common computer that will be for school work and research. If after sports they go over a friends house and play on a games console that is fine but they will not be having one at home. They will go to school, get tuition if needed, do their sport or practice their instrument, then have some leisure time before going to bed at a normal time to ensure they have adequate sleep.

Oh, and before you say I am anti technology, I'm a Computer Science graduate.

Where will you get one of those from when your kids start secondary school?

Where will you get one of those from when your kids start secondary school?

I would keep my old one init
Or I can get some from my aunts

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she has no idea...then mentions a specific age haha

Another thing to consider is that mobile phone networks would have long moved on by then, and it's quite possible that old phones would be unsupported like an analogue television.

I is such a fool

But tbh I have no idea as to what I would actually do.

I dont even know do I want kids anymore.

well deal with it when it comes

my nephews on the other hand..I wana be the fun uncle

Why should they have to wait until 16 to get a smartphone? Also, considering non-smartphones are pretty much out of production in 2014, there certainly won't be any around in say 20-30 years - it's impossible to imagine what sort of technology we'll be using then.

I love kids but it's hard when you're the parent, the one completely responsible for them...Idk if I'd even be a good parent. I'm definitely going to get a load of parenting books beforehand

but I don't want them to become antisocial brats like I am kind of becoming right now haha

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True but they would be using really bad phones till they are 16 so that they can learn to appreciate what they have

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