For those of you with young children, how are you dealing with their requests to have cell phones?

Not a parent but I'd emulate what my folks did, which was to give a secondhand basic cellphone when the kid turns 12. Kids under 12 don't need a phone; certainly not a smartphone anyway. If need be, one of those simple phones for calling and texting if there's an emergency would suffice. No need for a smartphone with access to the internet and social media.

Family plans.

Cell phone?Are we still living in 1998?

Oh, sorry,forgot where we are.

Short answer : no.

Off you go,come back when it gets dark.

Got my kid a smartphone that has a three hour limit per day.

Me not so affected anymore, but hey, just act quickly and give them the newest hyper sophisticated phone model as part of your life insurance. I guess you don’t want to learn it too late and the hardest possible way, like in that example in the news from last week.

We not. They are still young children.

Absolutely not!!!!

Look at kids around these days. To many electronics instead of outside playing. No wonder they are getting so sick these days.

Watch kids with their friends, they are all on their phones. Sometimes I will ask a group if the person that they are texting on the phone is more important than the friends that they are with, why are they with these friends.

There are kid's phones with a limit of 3 - 5 numbers. Both parents and a teacher's number are enough. These phones also have alarms on them. Wouldn't get them anything more before College and even then only if absolutely needed. I would still watch what they are doing on the phone though.