Child rearing.

[Token]

Originally Posted by Fenristein Wolfowitz

I'm not going to tell you how to raise your kid, but it seems to me that in an increasingly cell-phone connected world amongst teens, that 16-18 is quite a bit too old to get your first cell phone. I'd wait until her freshman year of high school at the latest, 7th grade at the earliest. Fact is that kids these days use their phones for organizing every bit of social interaction and by neglecting to give your kid a phone until her junior year of high school (or after she graduates) you could accidentally end up raising a hermit.

I dunno. I got my first cellphone a year ago, and I'm not any more of a "hermit" than your typical aspie kid. Besides, with facebook and what not, we can still have social lives without phones.