Comments on: kids and handphones, when’s the right time?

By: clair

clair — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:46:32 +0000

@regina
I agree, no hurry at all. Steev didn’t start using one till he was about 16.

@contentedmom
I use the PC functions more than I use the phone functions on mine too.

@gin
Yeah, I’d go on a needs basis as opposed to age. But peer pressure can be quite a force to be reckoned with too LOL.

By: Gin

Gin — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:31:44 +0000

My baby is just 20 months so me and hubby still have a lot of time to wait. But with my experience with my siblings, my parents let us have our own phone when we went to college. I’m thinking that it’s just the right time and age for a kid to have a phone.

By: ContentedMom

ContentedMom — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:11:16 +0000

actually, i am quite skeptical about kids using handphones…cos we dont know how much radiation there is…I try to keep it at a min for myself too

By: regina

regina — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:30:23 +0000

My youngest is 14 and she just got her first phone this year! She survived to age 14 without one so I don’t feel remorseful at all!!

By: clair

clair — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:40:23 +0000

@elaine
Hope they’ll listen to you. In our family, in-laws and out-laws can put in their 2 cents but DH and I make the decisions about the kids .

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:40:09 +0000

Your kids are so down to earth to be willing to share a phone for so many years. I’m not sure with my children. I have given it a thought, I don’t want to give it to them too early and I don’t want them to be too materialistic. But I’m very sure my hubby and his sisters will think otherwise. Well..so see when the time comes…