Should your child have a mobile phone?

For children and mobile phones these days is in the parental heart, but if not more a question of.

Data from the Pew Internet and American life project show that tweens and teens will own a mobile phone is almost a given, with about 75 percent of 12 - 17 years with a mobile device. In the year 2004 in the possession of less than half of this age group phones.

At the age of young mobile phone usage is also tends to bottom.

As 2009, 20% of children between 6 and 11 years had a mobile phone, media market survey. In addition, the mobile phone has property in the last five years - 80.5%-- under 10 - to 11 - year-old most dramatically increased.

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While the age of six awfully young for each child, a phone may have, have not child of development experts recommended an ideal age for children with their handheld inaugural bestowing.

Instead of waiting for some magic number, should the decision phone on more intangible factors, including the personal responsibility, need and parental respect your child a cell hinges.

As a mobile phone in children's hands before they can care of the technology may be a waste of money and could erode family intercommunication prematurely.

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As children, digital media expert Patricia Greenfield told the New York Times, "you should as long as possible (your child a cell phone), wait maintain hierarchical communication."

Today, many parents keep found data to middle school for the production of this first cell phone purchase and Pew Center that a majority of the children now in dial at 11 and 12 years old.

What do these young people on these phones? (Note: they are not Sexting.)

More than anything else, including talking to friends and text messaging, children aged six to 11 fire call their phones MOM and dad. But as children in tweens and teens grow transitions not surprisingly, that their cell phone activity by family friends.

But is mobile, caused property at an early age statically in children development process?

A large-scale study of Danish children revealed a correlation between the fetal and childhood mobile phone exposure and adolescent behavioral problems.

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However, perhaps this connection with parental cell phone time as children to do more. Children, mobile phones at the age of seven used were half as likely borderline behavior problems as to develop, exposed to mobile phone in the uterus, but not after the birth.

By mobile phones the link of the root of the mental disorder, although more research is needed, account conclusive may parental distraction.

Developmental consulting of childhood has basic security issues are mobile phone usage much easier to address.

Although parents cellular communication completely control their children, many wireless companies offer a menu of filters and options to limit. Some parents have also found that safety success with their children of prepaid phones, not with so many bells and whistles as high end devices come.

What decide whatever parents regarding their children and mobile phones, they can include a thing: kids asks for a specific time and they can parental cellular plan as well as set up in advance.

Finally, as soon as the cell phone debate concludes, is the question ' If you a car ' just around the corner.

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