“. And if your child’s classmates and friends are all getting phones, won’t they miss out without one?”
‘And if all their friends were taking a flying leap off a bridge.... ‘
I don’t know what happened to that phrase we hated
‘If he told you to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge…”
I will say, Catholic high school was a reprieve. Parents there don’t have as much waste dough as they do in public school. All social fashion and trend pressure is greatly eased.
The kids have flips that can be used to call or text a selected few numbers. Us, grandparents, a couple of friends, their boss (for the one that has a job) and a couple of back up adults if we are for some reason not available.
They seem to be surviving. Small private school and most of the parents have done the same. We do not find social media a healthy place. You are a kid, having everything you post be critiqued by some bored adult who has no idea who or what you are is not good mentally or emotionally.
And when you add in the predators not to mention the popular media stuff just better not to let them wander out there.
Even the kids who have smart phones tend to put them down once in a while.