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Group Urges Parents To Delay Giving Kids Cell Phones
- Chicago Tribune, Friday, August 25, 2017 7:08 AM
While the average child gets his or her first smartphone at 10, some parents are bucking the trend by promising to wait until their children are in eighth grade — when they're typically 13 or 14. The Wait Until 8th pledge — developed earlier this year by a group of Austin, Texas, parents — allows moms and dads to "rally together" so their children can look to other smartphone-free peers throughout elementary school.
