What age for a first phone for young people: parents are resisting

2024-04-27 23:15:17

” It’s shame ! » Anna (first name has been changed), 11 years old, looks at the 30-euro phone that Lucie, her mother, gave her before she entered 6th grade: a Nokia 3310 with nine buttons, without Internet. “We felt crazy social pressure to buy her a smartphone and, if possible, an iPhone,” chokes this mother of three children. We’re holding on, but it’s not easy. »

There are days with it, and days without it. “Anna keeps telling us that she feels excluded, isolated, that she is the only one in her class in this situation. I don’t know how long we’ll last. » Parents say “resist”: “It’s a fight. »