Do you have a cell phone?

[CrazyChik]

Cheapest iphone here is 199.
And the plan SUCKS, it's 60 bucks a month. That only comes with 72 texts.
I hate Rogers.

anyways, I don't believe any 12 year old needs a phone. Yes, maybe they do need to call home, but there are pay phones at a school right? Your friend probably has a phone. In my case my parents were usually somewhere where I could contact them, so I took the only phone we had, the family phone.
An expensive phone, like an Iphone, with text, internet, gps, etc, is really not needed for a 12 year old.

I got my first phone at 15, almost 16. My parents pay for the voice, and I pay for the texting (and internet, but Id on't use it). Basically, my life hasn't really changed since. I don't text too much, I mean other than to my bestest bud (who was my boyfriend lol) and I n ever use the net.

I used to horse-ride at a stables half an hour away from where I lived and I used to compete and hunt in that area as well, there's absoloutely no way I could have walked home or predict what time I'd finish and so therefore I needed a phone to ring my parents to say when I was ready to be picked up. No I didn't/don't need an Iphone with a camera and internet etc but if thats what my parents buy then that's what they buy. But I didn't get an Iphone, I started off with a Motorola V220.

 

[Babyjustrun]

I'm not completely against kids having phones.
But I would just like to bring up the point..
there was a time when kids didn't have phones, not many people did.
Why can't people live like it used to be? People didn't have a problem with it then.

I get that as a society our technology is constantly changing, and we feel the need to keep in touch and it's convenient.
But we got by before cell phones..

 

[DisFreak101]

Well
I have one
5th grade would be good for the
$19 ones where
all you can do is call
you know stuff for after school and emergencys
then work you way up
middle descent phone
and highschool
can be nicer
especially when you can pay for it youself later

 

[-flyhigh.]

i got a crappy, prepay phone when i was 11,
@ 12 i got the enV,