I've managed to hold off thru 6th grade, but I've decided to get my kid a phone for his 12th bday this summer. He has informed me multiple times he's "the only kid in 6th grade who doesn't have one!! He'll be going into 7th grade and staying after school for sports and riding buses to/from games and I want him to have a way to get a hold of us. I will probably get him an IPhone SE, mainly because we are already an apple family. Also because we have a metal roof which messes with the cell signal, and even on wifi there is an issue sending messages to/from android phones from our house and they often won't go thru. But imessages always do. So that is the pro to getting an iphone, bc a phone doesn't do much good if the texts won't go thru. So then I need to decide, do I just get him an Iphone SE (or whatever is cheapest) or give him my 13 and get an upgrade?
Also, I know Bark is highly rated but doesn't seem to work as well on apple devices, so if anyone has recs on a good parental monitoring app, that would be awesome. I don't wanna spy on him or anything, but he doesn't always make the best decisions or think before he does something (thanks adhd) so I want just something that will alert me to the red flag stuff.
So I ask the hive mind, wwyd?
Also, I know Bark is highly rated but doesn't seem to work as well on apple devices, so if anyone has recs on a good parental monitoring app, that would be awesome. I don't wanna spy on him or anything, but he doesn't always make the best decisions or think before he does something (thanks adhd) so I want just something that will alert me to the red flag stuff.
So I ask the hive mind, wwyd?