Jezi wrote:
JimD wrote:
Ellie (aged 8) has an iphone, her and Stanley (Aged 4) use it to play games, Mummy is allowed to borrow it during school hours.

I blame the parents


I know a parent who bought their five year old a mobile phone for "emergencies"....
when the wee toot would be away from adults in order to need it I really am not sure 
that my dear Jezi is what's wrong with modern society, geez I'm only 34 and sound like a right-wing old fogey
seriously what parent allows a five year, heck any child under the age 15, have a mobile phone. When I left school in 92, mobiles were too expensive for the ordinary school kid, so parents had to rely on old fashion things like setting a curfew (or not allowing their kids to wander around shopping centres aimlessly)
Sadly my generation, who are now becoming parents, have caved into the me generation mantra of "I want it, so I'll have it now". Some things are seen as a right, rather than a privilege, which is sad
...... and rant over
