nintendo

school?

Itd be annoying not being able to text them for shit

^

school is a 10 minute walk away

and my sister takes the bus to a farther school because she has behavioral issues

trust me, I still laugh at little kids with $1,000 smartphones

but if they don't have anything

Just get them like an iphone 5

I laught at kids with phones in general

I'd feel like the parents are forcing some weird belief on them

Like $50

I think its stupid

you don't need one

literally every one of your peers in school has one

you don't need one to play Genshin impact

My sisters got phones 2 years back and one of them was still in elementary school

Like tf

you need one to be connected with your world

Phones are two factor authentication devices

maybe the US is different, I don't think its even past 50% of primary school students

who have phones

same shit with computers a "family computer" is not enough

Everyone owns a phone

Their father works at Apple so they got them free

kids in America are rightly getting phones before age 5-6

Lol yup

Listen, the real reason you give kids phones before theyre like 10 is so they dont look up porn on your pc and fill it with viruses

see thats just maddening to me. Just get them a tablet

they can't call people on a tablet

nor can they network with friends

they don't need to make calls

at age 5

Everyone has owned a phone for I'd say for the past 7 years. I didn't get one tell graduation but that's because I am a cryptid outlier who hates communicating and obligations

why the fuck don't they?

spooky just because you want to call a 5 year old

Also i think you can through shit like google voice anw

does not mean they should

true reggie, but still

I think my youngest sister was like 8

if we time travel back to the 90s, you're right they don't need phones

But everyone in her class has a phone

you are just wrong

^^

It's crazy

She doesn't have data or anything

that's just it though, if you can't interface with other kids your age

because your parents are anti-phone fags

it just fucks you up

you can its called going to school and talking to people

you fucking antisocial retard

Like I did get one until 8th and my oldest sister got one in 7th

what do you think kids do outside of school Pika

Nothing

Lol

play on their computers/tablets

if you think they should be sequestered from teh interenet until they're teenagers

that's fine

but I don't

I am not saying no internet

I am saying they do not need a phone specifically

so why no phone then?

Id say they have a good balance of both

Maybe less when ya move up to highschool

Can we just get a new version of the like, itouch that is default set with google voice and whatapp and shit so you dont need to put it on a carrier

because there is no reason why they need a phone. At home you can do everything you want from a computer

Kids do still play outside and stuff

in person you can do it in person

I mean

Regi at that point ya might aswell get a carrier

but what are you protecting them from Pika?

that's what I don't get

No, because you have to pay for a carrier

They are relatively cheap if ya don't give it data

a phone is way, way cheaper than a home pc/tablet

nothing. I do not believe you need to give children access to a lot of things

and it has the added benefit of letting you give your kid independence

Super cheap plans especially if parents already have one

despite those things not being harmful

They have like children plans

I have this same discussion with parents who won't leave their kids home alone unsupervised