The newspapers seem to have stopped printing stories about mobile phones frying the brains of children, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea for kids to have phones, does it?
Whilst I can understand parents who go down the route of phones-for-an-emergency, isn't that just instilling a sense of fear in them? I get the feeling this is something every parent ends up going through at some point and according to this Cnet article, 8 years old is the average age of children who own a mobile phone.
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It's interesting to know that Disney have decided not to introduce their special "phone home and friends" phone here in the UK. Partially because the uptake isn't therefore young children the way it is in the US, but also there are good deals with pay as you go phones over here that negates the need for a special child's phone here.
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