High school. We were able to keep our oldest from having a smartphone until then. She’s in college now. The external pressures are nuts. It got to where she wa

High school. We were able to keep our oldest from having a smartphone until then. She’s in college now. The external pressures are nuts. It got to where she was just staring at the screens of her friends phones. My next oldest starts middle school next year. She has a smartwatch set to “family mode” for when she wants to walk to her friends or the park without an adult. She has access to the internet on a home computer. I think that better because she just ends up researching her curiosities over “engaging” with some mobile app. I get a report of her search history to make sure there’s nothing that is a code red.