Hot-Ticket Item for Kids: Cell Phones
“While some might question why someone so young might need one, and some scientists have expressed health concerns, many young kids are asking their parents for cell phones. And increasingly, they’re getting them.
There were two things 11-year-old Patty Wiegner really, really, really wanted for Christmas. One was a furry, playful dog that’s now filling her parents’ home with the sound of barking. The other gift makes a different kind of noise — it has a ring tone that mimics rapper 50 Cent’s hit song “Candy Shop.”
“It’s cool and popular,” Patty, a sixth-grader in Valrico, Fla., says of her reason for wanting the mobile phone. “And I can talk to my friends and talk to my dad and mom.”
I thought that when my kids received their first cell phone that it would be for emergencies. Silly me!
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