for a phone. I tried to not be condescending but I laughed as I said no. He asked several more times over the course of a few months and finally I told him not until he turns 16. He lets things go if he has something definitive to wait for.

I know we'll get him one before he's 16 but it scares me to death. But I also know it's my responsibility to teach him how to use it as a tool for good and for productivity, not just something to play games on and do other unnecessary or inappropriate things on.