cell phone for your daughter

Your first question should be why does an 11 year old need a cell phone Your second should be why does your particular 11 year old think she needs a cell phone. Don't you drive her everywhereshe goes? and doesn't the school she goes to call you if she asks them to. Cell phones have become a tatus symbol for preteens, See, my parents love me more than yours do. However, saying that, recently my daughter dropped her 12 year old som off at thelocal pool to swim with a few of his friends, to be picked up in an hour and a half, and the pool unexpectedly shut early because of a filter problem,and insisted that everybody wait outside in - 22 celcius weather. if some good samaritan hadn't let the boys use his phone, and wait with them, letting them get warm in his car while HE stood outside in the cold, they may well have been seriously injured from frost bite. He now takes his dad's phone with him when he goes anywhere. By theway, my daughter shuttled 5 boys home that day whose parents didn't bother picking up

i have a 6 year old brother, i gave him a cellphone, but i control his use. he can only use his cellphone AFTER his homework and during weekends. I think it is fine to give your daughter a cellphone, it would be really nice if you give it to her as a reward for a job well done. if her grades are up or if she has been good around the house. That way, she'll know that if she's good, then she'll be rewarded for it. Don't view a cellphone as something negative, you can use it to motivate her. Just find a way to regulate her and to make sure she doesn't abuse the privilege. Whenever my brother messes up in school, for example he got a zero on his seatwork, we confiscate his cellphone until he get a good mark on his next seatwork. he knows that his cellphone is a reward, and it motivates him to do well. and don't buy her the fancy ones, just the practical once where she could text message and at least call. hope this helps :D

children are not that innocent what we always think they are..! it all depands on how you get along withyour daughter! if you can explain her in a way that she likes that not to do any unnecessary work in mobile phone, it is advisable to give her one.! changing world needs changed minds too..! what do yousay..!

I think it would depend on if she would have an actual need for a phone. A lot of teens [and pre-teens] seem to have phones but they don't go anywhere much except school and home and the occasional trip out with friends. I'm not sure what phones are like in your area but there are a lot of options worldwide for teens such as those phones that you can only dial 1 or 2numbers that are already preset in the phone or ones that are prepaid so that you can't have a huge bill run up. I think it's shocking how young some kids have a phone - I don't see what a 5 year old [or even 6 year old like the post at the top] even need a phone for!!! It's not like they are going down to the mall with friends or anything - they should still be supervised by their parents at all times!

cell phones have become now a parcel of mans life so buy her one and see that she does not use it for wrong purposes