Last night my daughter again asked me, "Mommy, at what age can I get a cell phone?"
Now, my daughter is 6, and as far as I'm concerned I'd be happy for her to be cell-phone-less until she was at least 18! What with all the horror stories we read about in the tabloids about kids being stalked or harassed through social networks like MXit.
But the reality of it is that kids need to be able to get hold of thir parents in an emergency or crisis, and with public telephones on their way to extinction...
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