Cellphones for Kids(4-11 year olds)

Yeah I can see your point about the office and for real emergency's like getting another set of pants for you. That happened to me, I had to go the entire day but I never told anyone(luckily I was wearing dark pants). No one noticed so I was saved from ridicule but I already had my share so I could deal with it but if it has never happened I can see where you are coming from. In our school our office usually lets us use the phone system but like I said in the last part we aren't every school. Now with the fact that it is not memorized that is where a probably underused part of school is set in, the planner. I don't know if every school uses them and if they do if every student uses them they can put the phone number in the planner and then they won't have to memorize the number so even if they aren't able to ask a friend or older sibling that might help. Now friendship with older age groups is not common but is also active if you can get one good friend in an older age group. For me I got one friend and then as I started hanging around him I got more friends whether it be through after school hours sports or just going to their house. Now I can see where you are going for with 6th grade maturity but then again not everyone is mature. I use 7th grade because it is where school is actually starting to get more important. It is where your record will start to have an effect and where you will go in life. In 6th grade you can start thinking about things but you still got time but from 7th grade and on you will have to start worrying about credits so you will need to learn more and more responsibility. I say 7th grade because of my school. We have kindergarten to 6th grade on the same side while 7th to 12th on the high school side. After 6th grade we have about 7 teachers every day dependent on your classes, but some places have 6th through 8th together so that may prove to be a challenge. To talk about that I will have to say it is like your life. You start off new and don't need anything and as you go on you will be able to grow in maturity and responsibility. 7th grade would be the half point and you will be ready for it. Again another part of this go to what I have gone through. In 6th grade you are still on the elementary sports(which is in the morning for us) and 7th grade is the start of JV. I also would like to say I am one of those people who take the time to type out whatever I say on a text, but then again got a cell phone when I was in 8th grade. Our school also has a great English program but some of the kids at our school actually write in text language for some assignments that I have corrected. I have asked the teacher and he told me to mark them wrong and then he gave a speech about not using text language and not it is only used in our Biology classes and math on those word problems. It isn't fully taken out but in English class it is. I read the article about that 11 year old boy and thought that was just stupid of the older brother and I was almost going to completely agree with you but when I kept reading it I saw that it said other kids were waiting for another bus and that the mom had to have been able to get into the school since she talked to the assistant principle. The boy could have waited inside or with the other kids and not have almost died. It would have just took some common sense for him not to have any problems. I read the next article, and if I am correct the mother almost smothered her daughter by sleeping on her. If I am wrong I am sorry for misinterpreting but if I am correct it seems that the daughter had no training and the parent must have let her play with it for a little bit each day but for the mother to fall asleep on the daughter is unacceptable. It is a very good point in your favor but then again how many times will that situation come up for a 2 year old to save her 8 month old. I like your point but it seems that the parent could have prevented it. As I read the childenhospital.org site page it seemed that all their kids got one around the ages of 14 give or take a year. It seemed the child was just trying to get a cell phone to talk to her friends but was using it as an excuse since she started to pout about every kid having one. Now listening to a child whine about one isn't my thing. I would probably think about it and go with it since it would be my child but it would all depend on what they said. If it was because everyone had one I would tell them that I had to wait. I also don't fuss about material things but if it is something I like I will defend it until I collapse whether it be about a game or a book, but a cell phone? I can deal without it, but then again it is because where I live. I live where everyone know everyone. About the article of isolation, I have felt isolation from my kindergarten to 5th grade year with, well lets just say I had well over my share of name calling. Public isolation is easily avoidable if you just talk to them face to face. I have no idea how they feel public isolation. Also about negative-feelings, I have had to go over many obstacles in my life but these things just happen. Life sends us challenges but with every challenge we come out stronger. All right now to place something else on the table. Years from now when cell phones become more advanced what would happen? Touch phones will get more advanced and maybe be talk and it will type for you, such as Dragon for the computer for those who don' t like to type. That might actually be acceptable but then they will only be talking so texting will be obsolete. Also touch phones can give people some anger. My sister in general gets mad when she can't move the unlock button or get to her texts after calling. Now to continue on this what would happen if kids got cell phones then they will only be wanting to get them earlier and earlier and soon every pre-school kid will have a cell phone if we give the kids what they want. As parents we should teach them it is all right to have some item at certain ages. Like a car, you must be 16 or possibly 15 if you got your drivers ed a 14 to get a drivers license and to vote is 18. They don't let 12 year old kids drive because it isn't safe or let 17 year old teens vote, that I never understood but it is probably because they don't believe they aren't mature enough even if their birthday is a day after the voting they still can't because it is against the law. It is up to the parent to chose the final verdict but I still think that 12 year old are the right place, unless you got one of those genius children who are in college at 16, they may get one at a younger age since they might be in high school at age 10 or may just skip it since they are so smart(unlikely scenario but just throwing it out there.) To conclude I say you have very good points and were a great challenge. I hope to go against you in the future. You have been a great opponent, I still agree that you should win if an 11 year old should get one you should win.