{"id":10133,"date":"2006-08-28T07:13:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T14:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/08\/28\/cell-phones-for-kids.html"},"modified":"2006-08-28T07:13:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T14:13:49","slug":"cell_phones_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/28\/cell_phones_for.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell phones for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Was reading a PC Magazine article this morning about cellphones and mobile services for kids<\/a> — including one phone<\/a> identified as “the perfect first phone for the 5-9 crowd.”<\/p>\n

Yikes.<\/p>\n

So, does Katherine need a cell phone? Hrm. Not yet, I don’t think. I mean, it would be nice if she could contact us (or vice-versa) whenever needed, but it’s not critical as yet (we know where she is, and there are usually phone available). We don’t need her persistently phone-tethered (and GPSed) to us just yet.<\/p>\n

And, of course, I don’t know that I’d trust her with a $50- $100 cell phone. She still loses things too easily.<\/p>\n

Still, the current crop of kid-friendly phones — usually with convenient ways to restrict numbers dialed, or what services (if any) are enabled, sometimes by time, are pretty funky. And I suspect this will be one of those “No, we don’t need to do this” things that suddenly turns around into a “Wow, we really need to this” to a “How did we ever live without this?” things very quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Was reading a PC Magazine article this morning about cellphones and mobile services for kids — including one phone identified as “the perfect first phone for the 5-9 crowd.” Yikes….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech","category-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9531,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/13\/changing_times.html","url_meta":{"origin":10133,"position":0},"title":"Changing times","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Jun-06 11:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"When I first entered college, there were clay tablets phones in the hallway throughout our dorm, one for each hallway segment, usually shared among five or six rooms. 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