Our 11-year-old son got his first mobile phone last week.
I was completely unprepared for his reaction: a state of giddiness bordering on euphoria. I’m not sure if he’d have been any happier had he found a Folgers can full of silver dollars buried in the backyard.
Evidently, “Child’s First Phone Day” is now a thing, one step above a birthday and just a notch below Christmas.
Mark KennedyBefore we went out phone shopping together last Sunday, I tried to temper his expectations.
“This is just a fact-finding trip, Son” I said. “If we do – by some miracle – get a phone today it will be the cheapest, dumbest phone we can find.”