At what do you think a child should get their first cell phone

18, and video game exposure should be allowed, but kept at a minimum or on special priviledge. Otherwise the kid's gonna miss out on creating a connection with nature. A connection to nature in life should be apart of every childs up bringing. Woa be to the children raised in the city.

when they are old enough to pay for it

i am not against kids having technology but i am against parents shoving their kid in front of a TV rather than hiring a proper sitter or getting a relative to keep an eye on them when they go out...

My kids got theirs when they started secondary school and were getting a bus there and back. So that's age 11 here in the UK.

I think it's when they start driving.. however, I got my son his at age 14 because he was traveling a lot for academic team meets. They could never give me an accurate time to pick him up at night so this way he could just call me from the bus and tell me when they were almost back at the school. it helped me out a lot for him to have one..

18 is plenty early enough to be wasting time on a phone.

I went by when it would make my life easier for them to have a phone. With both, it was middle school. When they started spending more time away from me and there's greater need to be able to get in touch and coordinate.

@mozgoz.
You hit the nail on the head!
Technology has in fact superceded humanity.
For everything technology gives us it also takes something away. Technology is also a tool to take us away from nature or even picking up a real book. Why? When we are immersed in nature it takes away the desire or urge to work.
Those in power no this secret. Which brings to mind this statement during a board meeting.
'We will build them cities and they will have the freedom to leave work and go home but return to work for us every morning for the rest of their lives. Yet, they will truly never own anything. The bank will.'
Rockefeller 1906

when i was 15 i ran up a £400 ($573) bill on my cell phone and at the time the contract was still under my dad's name because he worked for the cell phone company. He got me an iPhone 3 before it even came out. He saw my bill for that month and used my mom's hairbrush on my bare bottom... And he said the phone company had cut off my signal and to get it back i'd have to pay half the bill up front... £200 ($286) was two months worth of allowance money for me...

I should say that there were no smart phones yet when my kids got theirs at 13.

I think, personally, 12 or older. However, I got mine when I was 9 or 10 due to a specific situation. My best friend, the first friend I ever had, moved away at that age. I received the cell phone to make long distance calls, as did my sister. After she cut off her friendship with my best friend and had no reason otherwise for a cell phone, our "shared" iphone we got later on became my iphone.

When they become responsible enough to pay the bill for the service.

I see 6 year olds with iPads and iPhones and I find it disturbing. There is an interesting article that explores the idea that giving your young child (2-8) such devices equates to child abuse. There are schools that require parents not to give their child technology until they are 14 or even as late as 18; it is apart of the contract. I'm not picking either side, but I find it fascinating.

My oldest got one when he started high school...it was a pay as you go!!

I got one when I was 16. It is not as good as I thought it would be to have.

I got mine at 23. But me and my best friend were the only ones we knew that had one. Nobody had a cellphone back then, they cost a fortune to buy and were expensive to use. And many places where there was no coverage.

21

They can and sometimes should have a flip phone when they are able to understand how to use it.

My kids got their first cell phones on their
13th birthday, but times have changed since then.

When they demonstrate the maturity and responsibility that would entitle them to have one.

i didn't get my first cell phone until i was 16. i survivored and so can they xD

didn't have cell phones when I was growing up.

My nephew got his for his 6th birthday this year.

No younger than 16. This isn't listed.

but then you wouldn't have one super. lol

when they buy and pay for it

I just got my first one at 19.

I got my first at around 30

singleman I would say any where between fourteen and sixteen when there are a little more mature

13+

I got mine when I was 4

lol. ok super.

I'm 18