Daycare.com Forum - View Single Post - 3 year old with Phone..SERIOUSLY?

Originally Posted by mamamanda:
My 6 yo randomly announced "I think I'm old enough for a smart phone" the other day. My immediate response: Absolutely not. I have many moral/ethical/just feel its plain old bad parenting type issues with giving a child a cell phone. However I went with the response I knew would nip it in the bud for him. When he asked why not I said, "Are you able to commit to paying me $50 every single month to pay for this phone??"

He said, "How would I get that much money?"
"You'd have to give up your play time & get a job where you can work several hours every week."

Long pause..."Maybe I'm not old enough for a smart phone."
Ya think?

That was a good one. Too bad more parents didn't do that. To a lot of parents, it's just an easy way to keep their child off their back and busy.