What age do you give your kid a phone? Curious what you guys think?

Embed a communication chip into brain at birth.

I mean, it's coming.

13 flip phone , 18 smart phone

13 years old. They have to earn it though with good grades and chores and if they don’t get it done, no phone. Also, they need to contribute a portion of their money to the bill so they understand that it’s not free. If their grades slip, phone goes away.

Lastly, they cannot ‘go to bed’ with it in the bedroom. Got to be charging in kitchen or downstairs.

I agree with the “social outcast” post I just read. I hate to admit it. These parents that give their kids phones when the kids are 8 FK it for the non phone kids who do get looked down on.

Tough call OP. Wish society was different but it is what it is.

If you are having kids in this technocracy, the government/corporate already owns them. Give them a smartphone at birth. They are the system's chattel property, not yours. If you want them to be fully programmed and operational in the system, you need to have them plugged in before they are walking. Welldone btw on spawning new souls into this.