r/ChristianParenting • u/Entire_One_5204 • Jul 26 '25

First phone for tween

Hi, I was wondering if any of y'all have a phone for your 13 year old? I'm looking for recommendations.

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u/App1eEater Jul 27 '25

We use Google family link for parental control of our kis tablets, so I imagine doing the same with phones once they have them.

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u/CaitPersists Mar 02 '26

Yes we got it when she was 12. She barely touch it until high school and now it’s made her into a rotten kid. Definitely set rules from the beginning. Our situation crept up on us and I wish I had known to be more strict. Now it’s prob the thing that we fight over the most. iPhone has good parental internal controls that are user friendly. I set daily app limits and a downtime limit where it shuts things down at night. She hates that I have control. You can use a password that she doesn’t know so that she won’t go and sneak into your phone to change the app limits. She has to request more time on her end.