At what age should your children receive their first mobile?
The telephone has become for children and adolescents the object of desire par excellence.
When is it good to introduce children to the world of mobile devices? Last September, the ban on the use of cell phones in schools for children under the age of 15 came into force in France. In other countries of the world the rules of how to use electronic devices depend on each institution, although it would be very important that it be regulated in Mexico.
The question that thousands of parents ask themselves today is at what age should they give the first mobile phone to their child? In a society as technological as ours, in which we live permanently connected to the Internet, social networks, news from the smartphone, it is an impossible mission that the phone does not become an object of desire.
The little ones copy what they see; Also, the use of technology that they make will depend a lot on the relationship that the parents exercise with their own mobile device. If adults are too attached to the phone, it is very likely that this behavior will be repeated in children.
According to a study carried out in Spain, 20% point to 14 years as the average age of onset in the use of their own mobile phone, according to research by Estudio Mobile in Spain: Childhood and mobile use ‘, carried out by the company holaMOBI.
18.7% of the more than 230 respondents assure that the recommended average age is 16, while 13.6% think that the best option is 15 years. In addition, about 30% of the participants in the survey show doubts about what would be the most recommended age and point to the differentiation between a mobile and a smartphone as a determining factor: more than 4.5% of Spaniards consider that children should have mobile terminals with the possibility of making calls, but without Internet access.
It is difficult to establish an appropriate age to use a mobile, but the ideal would be from the age of 15 to avoid, also, that there are more cases of bullying or sexting, since the maturity of the minor will be greater and he will have a more developed cognitive system.