I just sold a phone to a lady who was giving it to her daughter for her 6th birthday. She was so happy about getting it for her and said shes really been needing her own phone.

OMG that was my first phone too!
I was i think in 7th grade or so.

You should only need a cell phone if you can be left at a store alone haha

I got mine at the begginning of 7th grade.

Damns i didn't get a phone til freshman year & it was effin' prepaid. my friends 7thgrade brother has an iphone, laptop, ps3, nintendo ds(& upgrading to the dsi) & guitar hero for the ds & xbox360. peoples these days...

I had a phone in 8th grade... I thought I was so cool lol... and in sixth grade I had one of those HUGE pagers LOL... but yea I dont think you could ever be too young to have a phone... its safe... my little sister is 9 and has a cell phone, you never know when you might have an emergency you know... its a crazy world.

I still have a pager lol. I won a radio contest one day, they were like what ever happened to pagers? If anyone still has a pager and comes up here with it you win tickets. It was exciting

Perhaps she got it for her little girl so that
she can be able to check on her every now and then to make sure
she is safe or for the little girl to call her mother if she needed her
like for example say... she missed her school bus. she will be able to call her mother or father
Did you ever think of that??
Thats the reason my mother got me a phone which was in 6 or 7th grade

yeah but at 6? What are you going to be doing at 6 years hold hitting the clubs or walking aimlessly throughout the mall?
When i was six i was probably over at my friends house with parental supervision and i could always use their phone if i needed to.

when your in middle school thats different, your more involved with things like sports.
So yeah they are both a bit different

ooh No i wasn't doing all of that
God knows my mother would have never let me hit the clubs at that age
but i was in middle school
i was involved in sports
sometimes i would miss by bus and i needed her in situations like this
&& she would sometimes just wanna check on me- thats what mothers do

well yeah but my point exactly why a 6 year old?
I remember i missed the bus and i just had to go to the office to call my mom to come pick me up.

I got a phone because of the massive amounts of hurricanes here. If another bad one like Katrina hits here and we're out of power for two months, I've got a cell phone.

Yes You are right
Maybe this little girl is messing or flirting with little boys at her school
&& she needs to talk to them
who knows!

it is very important to have a cell phone in a situation like this
even if you are 5 years old
Good Reason!

for some reason i keep thinking you are british


terrible reason


better reason...but again not really.
A guard would probably take care of him/her and help them find their family.

what if there isn't a guard?
or what if this child is nowhere to be found?

trust me there is bound to be one.

okay if you say so
You Win!

I got my first phone when I was in 8th grade, but I haven't really needed it until just recently when I got my license. Now I'm required to take it with me so I can call during emergencies.

My parents like to buy expensive things that we don't need.

My parents like to buy expensive things that we don't need

so are you saying you don't really need it??
its useless??

When they bought it, I didn't need it. I didn't even want it.

what about now?

Now it's a new way for my mother to nag me. WOO HOO

not necessarily.