first mobile phone for a 9yr old girl

[dang65]

OH wants to get her an iphone as her cousin in America has got their 9yr daughter one - I told her no way.

Shame. Reconsider.

[Spacecadet]

iPhone

[krytonsheep]

I'd get a low radiation one http://www.mobile-phones-uk.org.uk/sar.htm

[xoggoth]

Emergency use! She'll run up a huge bill with emergency calls to her friends. If that's all she really needs it for, get her of those bracelets old people have for when they fall down stairs.

[voodooflux]

Emergency use! She'll run up a huge bill with emergency calls to her friends. If that's all she really needs it for, get her of those bracelets old people have for when they fall down stairs.

That's why the JCB phone I posted earlier is such a good idea - she'll only want to use it (and risk her friends seeing it) for absolute emergencies.

[MPwannadecentincome]

Samsung E1360 in pink


FM radio
Bluetooth®
polyphonic ring tones
pay as you go:
from £19.00 + £10 top up


Orange website.

Cheap enough to lose

thanks - she doesn't like pink - I'll have to see if its blue!

[MPwannadecentincome]

Get her one of these: http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4...-/Product.html

Should live up to whatever a 9 year old can throw at it.

for a boy maybe, for a girl - not girly enough! thanks anyway

[MPwannadecentincome]

Cheap enough to lose

OH says 'why would she lose her phone?'

doh - so it has to happen before she'll believe it.

The reason we're in debt is because she can't accept that money has to be put aside for 'unexpected expenditure' instead of spending it on things we don't need or don't use and having lofty ideas about buying iphones.

[MPwannadecentincome]

But better than having to replace their broken phone every few weeks

well if its for emergencies its not going to be used so can't get broken????

[MPwannadecentincome]

Who cares about cool - if she wants a cool one, then she needs to come up with a better argument than "it's for emergencies", IMHO.

I'm already looking forward to these discussions with my children.

past the point of justifying it - the OH didn't even hesitate about agreeing, as I said her suggestion was an iphone.