When should kids get phones?
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When should kids get phones?
Katie: So I want to ask you about when is the right age to have stuff or to start doing stuff. What do you think is the right age to start having a phone?
Aimee: Oh, I think for security reasons, to, you know, keep the child safe, perhaps maybe about 11 or 12 when they start going around places without their parents.
Katie: Yeah.
Aimee: It would be a way for me to contact my daughter. Even now, my daughter is only six and she doesn't have a phone, and that's far too young, I believe. However, she walks to school by herself and walks home by herself. And that stresses me out for her safety.
So there are times where I wish I could phone her or text her, but she doesn't have a phone. And I do believe that six is far too young to have a phone.
Katie: A little bit too young.
Aimee: Yes. So purely for security reasons, I think probably around 11 or 12.
Katie: How old were you when you first got your phone.
Aimee: Well, I'm an old person so, you know, people didn't have mobile phones. I was reaching the end of high school. I was, I think, 17 when I got my first mobile phone. And it was a big brick. But again, that was for, you know, I guess security reasons.
Katie: Yeah.
Aimee: My parents got it for me. I was going out, you know, I started going out at night, going to concerts. And I was beginning to be allowed going into bars and things at 17, 18. So yeah, it was a good security thing. My parents were appreciative of being able to contact me.
Katie: Yeah.
Aimee: How about you? How old were you when you first got your mobile phone?
Katie: Oh goodness. I was about 12 or 13. I was really young.
Aimee: Okay.
Katie: And I only got my first mobile phone or my first cellphone because my best friend who got the same one and I wanted to send like picture messages to her. It was back in the old days where you can send a photo, you can take photos.
Aimee: Picture messages.
Katie: Picture messages.
Aimee: I couldn't even send picture messages. Mine was just texts, like pressing the same button over and over again.
Katie: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So I never really used it as like a way of security. I just used it to send really overpriced picture messages to my friend for absolutely no reason. It was such a waste. And to play Snake. Do you remember Snake?
Aimee: Oh yeah, Snake.
Katie: Like the little game that you could play on your phone.
Aimee: Yup, yup.
Katie: Yeah. I didn't use it for a good use, I think. I just used it to waste time.
Aimee: Fair enough. Well, you're 12, you said, right?
Katie: Twelve, thirteen, yeah.
Aimee: That sounds age appropriate, I think, age appropriate use.
Katie: Yeah. It's a good time to start wasting your time.
Aimee: Yeah.
Katie: Get ahead to start wasting time.
Aimee: Yeah.
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right age
When is the right age to have stuff?
Here, the right age means the best age, or the most appropriate age to do something. Notice the following:
- There is no right age to stop learning.
- What is the right age to get married?
- What is the right age to get married?
back in the old days
It was back in the old days when you could send a photo.
Here, back in the old days refers to a prior time in a persons life. Notice the following:
- I was thin at one time back in the old days.
- Things were cheaper back in the old days.
- Things were cheaper back in the old days.
overpriced
I just used it to send really overpriced picture messages.
If something is overpriced, then it costs more than it should. Notice the following:
- Most colleges are overpriced.
- Food in hotels is always overpriced.
- Food in hotels is always overpriced.
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