Me and My daughter Dad are having a discussion about if we should get enaly a phone or a kids watch where we are able to track her location at all times and she can only call us. My opinion is the phone but his opinion is the watch. We agree that maybe she’s still too young to have Any of the items because is a huge responsibility but we agree that we have stay connected to her wherever she’s at so she can communicate with us. She has always had a tablet at each household but that’s only connected to wifi so isn’t really the samething.
So Parents I’m asking for advices at what age is appropriate for a child to have a phone or any mobile watch? Or what age did you give her your child any of these items? And what do you do when you monitor them is there a special parent app where we can track them on what they doing?
PS - she’s 10years old and in the 4th grade.
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I think it depends on the maturity level my 7 year old has a phone since she’s been in kindergarten last year. Now my son who is in kindergarten, I will not be getting him a phone no time soon 😅 I monitor everything my children watch and do.
You can turn on Location and track her on her phone also. My oldest got her first phone in 6th grade, my middle used one of our old phones with WiFi from around 4th grade until she got a phone last year. We do parental controls to restrict what they can view or apps they can download, certain apps like TikTok and Snapchat and Instagram are set to only have 30 min each a day of time allowed. That way they can see what their friends posted, but can’t mindlessly scroll all day. And they have Downtime, so their phones disable at 9:00 on weeknights and 10:00 on weekends. I do have it set that they can text or call me or their dad after their downtime in case they need to.
After my brother died, my older sister gave his daughter a phone and did the same. Time limits on apps and disabled in the evenings. She’s 10 in 5th grade. If she didn’t have limits, she’d scroll ALL day long
@beezmommy, that’s what my girls would do, too. Plus the time limits make it a little less likely to get off into stuff they don’t need to see. It gives them just enough time to interact with their friends and then it’s done.
@mary925 I don’t think there’s any right answer. It’s really all personal preference. You should go with whatever you and her father thinks is best.