Why I bought my daughter a 'dumb phone'
Mum, Nicole de Pommes, explains why she got her daughter a feature phone for starting secondary school instead of a smartphone.
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00:00It was quite difficult to persuade our daughter that she was not able to use a smartphone
00:05at school. We have gone down the non-smartphone route and we feel that this is totally fine
00:10for her at this point in her life. She's just not old enough and doesn't need a smartphone.
00:14It's made it a little bit easier that our school has actually put a ban on smartphones
00:18for years 7 and 8, but we would have this discussion a little bit further down the track
00:22for her, but at this point we have gone with a non-smartphone.