“It drives me nuts when I see his friends on it all the time - it seems very antisocial,” Ms. She also was not appreciative of how smartphones had affected other children around him. Muscat said she did not consider buying her child a smartphone partly because she felt the device would make him a target for muggers. She ended up buying the LG GizmoGadget, a Verizon smartwatch that has calling and texting capabilities and a locked-down list of contacts so that her son could interact only with people she had approved. Lynn Muscat, a parent in San Francisco, said she had considered buying a “dumb phone” for her 10-year-old son to keep in touch while he was at summer camp. One popular option is to start the child off with dumbed-down mobile devices, like feature phones that can only send text messages or place phone calls, and to assess whether they can use those devices responsibly. When that time comes, there are approaches for testing the waters before handing one to the child. Ultimately, parents will determine when their child truly needs a smartphone. The main difference with a smartphone is that it is with a child everywhere, including outside of parental supervision. If you hold off giving smartphones to children, many still have access to technology tools through devices like computers and tablets, she added. In the end, such cons may outweigh the pros, Ms. Even older children are not immune: Last year, at least 100 students at a Colorado high school were embroiled in a scandal that involved trading naked pictures of themselves on their mobile devices. With the devices, children gain access to powerful apps, including education tools for studying, chat apps for connecting with friends and the wealth of information on the web.īut they also are one step closer to distracting games, sexting apps and social media apps where online bullies are on the prowl. In other words, parents should not be surprised if younger children with smartphones lack impulse control. The prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain that controls impulse, finishes developing in the mid-20s. About 36 percent of parents said they argued with their children daily about device use. It also found that 66 percent of parents felt their children used mobile devices too much, and 52 percent of children agreed. In a separate study published this year, Common Sense Media polled 1,240 parents and children and found 50 percent of the children admitted that they were addicted to their smartphones. Weinberger, who wrote the smartphone and internet safety book “The Boogeyman Exists: And He’s in Your Child’s Back Pocket,” said she had surveyed 70,000 children in the last 18 months and found that, on average, sexting began in the fifth grade, pornography consumption began when children turned 8, and pornography addiction began around age 11. “I think that age is going to trend even younger, because parents are getting tired of handing their smartphones to their kids,” said Stacy DeBroff, chief executive of Influence Central. For some children, smartphone ownership starts even sooner - including second graders as young as 7, according to internet safety experts. On average, children are getting their first smartphones around age 10, according to the research firm Influence Central, down from age 12 in 2012. The topic is being increasingly debated as children get smartphones at an ever younger age. But unlike driving a car, which is legal in some states starting at the age of 16, there is no legal guideline for a parent to determine when a child may be ready for a smartphone. The smartphone, after all, is the key to unfettered access to the internet and the many benefits and dangers that come with it. Nowadays, parents face a trickier question: At what age should a child own a smartphone?
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