Children Should not be Allowed to Own Smart Phones Until They are in Their Mid Teens (15-16 y/o)

Thanks for the argument! :) Rebuttals :- "Games that stimulate brain activity may be healthy for the kid and could provide some benefits, a phone can also give them a multitude of ways to learn new things and educate themselves more about world events and simplistic problems."Smart phones have these options, correct. But there are no better substitutes? WRONG. Dear opponent, I would like to ask you, how do you think young kids' brains got developed so well before the age of smart phones?The people from the golden era of scientific development, great philosophers and scientists, did not have smart phones for brain development, did they? At this tender age, brain development at the cost of health damages, however tiny they might be, is not good. Physical development along with brain development is required. Games like copycat, tickling, kickball, etc. helps the baby's body as well as brain to develop. "Can a phone function as a calculator or a study guide?" Kids aged 5-10 don't need calculators. Using the brain to calculate is good for mental development. Calculators, not quite so, but that's a debate for another time.Study guides. - Laptops exist for that, which can be better guarded for children and they won't be carrying around it with them at all times. Harm from radiation directly relates to time of exposure and distance from body. Smart phones are always kept in a pocket near the body and they are SO very much handy that you can access them anytime, increasing time of exposure. Laptops, on the other hand, not so close to body, and not easy to use whenever you like, you need to sit down, keep the lappy somewhere, then use it. " I can't name more then 5 things that could go wrong that could correlate to a smart phone."Here you go - 1) Stiff neck, because you can get into social media so easily that you prefer chatting online than meeting up. You bend your neck downwards to chat for long times. Result - Neck problems.2) Jeopardising friendships. Seriously? You have never seen people at restaurants just gazing into their phones while eating and rarely talking to their friends or companions? Addiction has it. A study showed that people preferred to talk over chat if they could even if they were face to face.3) Eye damage - It is commonly understood that the waves from screens cause eye damage. 4) Insomnia - Sleeping is boring, lets chat on facebook or scroll through random pictures on instagram!5) Makes you stupid.Using your phone instead of your brain to recall or deduce information could make you mentally lazy, say researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada. 6) Nomophobia - your phone has died and you have no way of charging it. How are you going to get through the day? What about all the social media updates you're likely to miss? What if something terrible happens and nobody can get hold of you? - NOMOPHOBIA. Stops you from enjoying the world outside that stupid phone.7) Less physical activity - Spending more and more time on your phone means you spend less and less time on the move....I could go on, but there is a word limit for this debate, and you get the idea. " it allows students a place to express themselves and allow other kids to learn more about them as well. "That would be far better done if these kids were made to meet each other, and know each other by spending time in the real (NOT THE VIRTUAL) world. In these kids' future, interviews, real life problems, meetings, dinner with friends, etc are not going to happen online. They need to know how to socialise, IN REALITY. "All of the things in a smart phone is also available on a computer with a simple browser, so will you argue that kids aged from 10-15 cannot get into a computer?"Same response as study guides, under "Can a phone function as a calculator or a study guide?" "Most kids that don't have smart phones just communicate with people less, and are genuinely introverts."How does concentrating on the fun with friends during an outing, instead of constantly gazing into the screen make you introvert? Its the opposite for sure though. " and will have more social skills as they would get invited to places more often. "Invitations don't inculcate social skills. Most of these kids won't even go due to the fear of being judged for what they are outside the online world. Even if they go, they are most likely to take the phone with them and spend more time on it. "This would also be a terrible plan for business, bringing the flip phones back will be more manufacturing cost over something that should be within the families decision, not the law."Children between the ages 0 - 15 don't have any important 'business meetings' as far as I know. Con present rebuttals now.Sources - >http://www.babycentre.co.uk...>https://www.quora.com...> http://www.msn.com...