Our children are not teens yet (5, 7, 8, and 11) but we appreciated reading through these responses. We live in a neighborhood that has a number of children around the ages of ours, and lately we are running into the problem of some of them (9-12 year olds) now carrying smart phones around! We came up with the idea of having them just drop the phones on a space by our front door if they come over to our house and have talked at length with our children about not looking at them, just coming home if all the others are doing is messing around on their phones, etc. I wish I could say the parents only allow the phones for safety and had good controls on them, but I highly doubt it.
Any other suggestions from those of you further ahead than us?
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