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Have you guys talked about when what age would be a good age for

Sasha to get a smartphone?

I personally think that maybe I could get one by like high school but you guys are like

intent on like college or something. No I really don't have a time I don't really don't know I don't

know and I think everyone's trying to do their best you know yeah at some point

I in this modern society yeah he'll need a phone, but... By high school, please?

But at this point, you know, the watch is working fine. I just, I really don't know.

I'm Denise Rappman.

Um, I'm Sasha Rappman.

We live in Santa Jose, New Mexico, Eldorado, and I'm 11 years old.

And Sasha and his mom Denise are trying to find their way through the same ficket that many families are negotiating,

whether or not to get on social media.

A conversation which is basically synonymous with,

when should a kid get a smartphone? We noticed Sasha's peers started having

smartphones as early as kindergarten and that was just not

something that we wanted to do so I guess that was probably when we first started

thinking about it.

I keep telling my parents like I can have a smartphone and also not have

social media on it but they don't listen to me.

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