http://www.drgreene.com/perspectives/preteens-cell-phones-10yearold-thinks/ Putting the care into children's health Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 http://www.drgreene.com/perspectives/preteens-cell-phones-10yearold-thinks/#comment-620 GeordieKin Mon, 16 Sep 2013 03:16:00 +0000 http://www.drgreene.com/?p=16194#comment-620 Thank you :-)

]]> http://www.drgreene.com/perspectives/preteens-cell-phones-10yearold-thinks/#comment-443 Alan Greene Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:38:00 +0000 http://www.drgreene.com/?p=16194#comment-443 I agree, GeordieKin… beautiful, thoughtful, empathetic, strong approach.

]]> http://www.drgreene.com/perspectives/preteens-cell-phones-10yearold-thinks/#comment-441 GeordieKin Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:18:00 +0000 http://www.drgreene.com/?p=16194#comment-441 I agree with you wholeheartedly, I ran the health office in a school which had only grades 4 & 5, pre-k, and Special needs classrooms so I had plenty of talks with parents and kids about cell phones. This is a very heated subject between kids and parents but it is also one where the answer will depend a lot on the maturity of the child. I explained to the parents that a big reason my husband and I wouldn’t be getting our son, who at the time attended middle school in the same district I worked, a cell phone prior to his freshman year in high school because when kids get these things earlier they have nothing majorly important to them left to look forward to until it’s time for their drivers license, so they end up searching for things to get that excited feeling back that they felt when they and their friends spent all that time looking at and planning what cell phone they wanted. Which for some kids leads them into trouble.

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