You may be thinking of buying a phone for your child. But you should exercise caution while buying one. Children under the age of 7 should not use any kind of cell phone as the radiations may be harmful for them. While purchasing a cell phone, you should also consider its safety aspects. You should buy one which has low emissions and is safe for your child. In any case, you shouldn’t buy it if your child is less than 7 years old.
Prepaid phones are ideal for children because of the fact that children may make very long calls. If you give them a bill phone, you should be prepared for a very large bill. In case of prepaid cell phones, you can be assured that children have a limited amount of credit which they can use. Once that credit is over, they can’t use the phone and you can control your expenses. There is no way to control the expenses in case of bill phones.
Even if you ask your children not to talk a lot on phones, they may still end up making very long calls on the bill phones and a large bill will be presented to you. It is really hard for them not to make calls when they can. You may be shocked to see it. Prepaid phones are very useful in such cases. Even if there is not credit left, you can always call your children and you decide whether you should put additional credit or not.
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We recently took the plunge and bought our teenager his first phone. We felt it was time because he is going out on his own a bit more nowadays and we wanted the peace of mind that he would be able to call us or 911 anytime without having to ask someone to use a phone.
ReplyDeleteWe opted for a NET10 prepaid phone because the low pricing, ease of use and great coverage makes this an ideal candidate for a first phone (or for anyone else, actually).
We also used this to teach some financial literacy/resource management. We upped his allowance a bit but he has to buy each month's minutes himself. He also has to make them last through the month. He quickly learned to carefully watch those minutes...