7 and 9 sounds way too young for kids to have their own phone in my opinion. My son really wanted a smartphone at some point, and we figured he would need one f

7 and 9 sounds way too young for kids to have their own phone in my opinion. My son really wanted a smartphone at some point, and we figured he would need one for secondary school (starts at 11 or 12), add some time to get used to it, and he got the phone in his last year of primary school. That sounds early enough to me. He never takes it to school, by the way. Despite his phone, we can still never reach him. He mostly uses it to watch YouTube at home, and for chatting with his friends, he relies almost entirely on Discord, which he's got on his laptop. At least I'm glad he's not into TikTok/Facebook/Instachat and that sort of crap. To reach him, they'd have to launch an antisocial network.