I Give My Kids Cellphones Because I’m Afraid

I don’t want my 10-year-old to care about follower counts, but I do want her to text me if a shooter comes to school

Meg Conley
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readMay 21, 2019

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MyMy kids desperately wanted cellphones. My husband and I had decided to wait until they were in the ninth grade, a policy that was especially aggravating to my older daughter. She’s starting fifth…

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Meg Conley
Human Parts

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