What is the best age to give a child a phone with unlimited internet access?
We are in the age of social media. We use our phones for virtually everything like entertainment, education, communication, financial transactions, and so much more.
Kids as young as six months old are already watching ‘baby shark’ on YouTube. But the internet is a very dangerous place, with sexually explicit content and dangerous people, it makes sense not only to regulate your child’s access to the internet but to let them know dangers exist.
You can set parental controls on some apps like Netflix and YouTube, most social media websites have age limits which is a wonderful guide in regulating whether your child is mature enough to have a social media account.
But at what age would you have to get your child their phone?
Irrespective of there age, isn’t it important to know your child, before granting them such access and freedom?