Tough Decisions For Parents And Their Child’s First Phone

Luckily for parents, the best cell phones for kids come cheaper than most adult phones do. You can buy great phones for kids for as little as about $25 all the way up to $100 and higher if you have the money. For a small child and even a middle aged kid, parents worry about them losing the phone and so they don’t want to pay too much for something that might be gone in an instant.

Young kids don’t fully understand the value of money and what things cost. This is one of the reasons many parents shy away from giving their kids cell phones at a young age. They would prefer to wait until the child is older and better able to understand that the phone is not a toy and needs to be used and cared for.

For parents that do want to find cell phones for kids that are young, they can look online and find a couple of models available. There are even ones that come with built in GPS that can be used to help locate the child or the phone when it gets lost.

Younger kids won’t mind having a phone that is designed especially for kids but older children will have none of them and want the real thing. Because you can do so many things with a cell phone now days, teenagers will rebel if their parents won’t let them get a fully functioning phone with all the bells and whistle’s.

Affording a phone for their kids can be difficult for many families in todays environment of high unemployment. Many families will probably not be able to afford the phone their kids want or any phone at all. Some get around that by saying the child can get a phone when they can afford to pay for it themselves. That way they are not saying no and it give the kid the incentive to go out and try to get a job to make money.