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Originally Posted by RunKC
Our neighbor has a 7 year old daughter with an iPhone. Granted it’s got that software called BARK parental control to basically restrict everything but pictures and text and visibility to everything, but I still don’t like it.
Your ****ing kid does not need an iPhone. Get this a tracker phone so they can contact you in case of emergency.
It’s gone way too far
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Maybe where you live but not where I live. My oldest has had a phone since the beginning of 6th grade and my youngest will get a phone probably a year earlier.
My wife installed software to not only track their phones but battery status and other options. We also track all of their online behavior on their iPad's and PC's and fortunately, we haven't had any issues to date.
That said, shit can get crazy here in LA so I want my kids to have the ability to call or text immediately. Just a few years ago, one of the elementary schools went on full Lockdown because some nut was swinging a machete in front of the school. Another lockdown happened because some nut jumped the 8 foot tall fencing around the school.
Fortunately, the police arrived quickly in both cases and no one was injured but the kids didn't have cell phones at the time, so my wife and I were pretty much freaking out when we received those emails/texts stating that the schools were on lockdown.