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When is the right time and age to give your child mobile phones?

teens, mobile phones, privacy, parents

When is the right age to give your children the freedom to use their own mobile phone? Source: Getty Images

Teaching our children responsibility, respect and cyber safety are some of the topics discussed with Family Counsellor Donovan Nufable and mother of two teen-aged Filipino Australians, Kei Liwanag.


When and at what age should you give your child a mobile phone? What are the responsibilities attached to owning a mobile phone? Should we know their passwords and check their messages and phone use? At what age should we give our children their right to privacy? Here's what the expert has to say.


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