This is one of the biggest questions that parents are asking themselves, Danny, and that is,

when should I get my child a smartphone? And I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta,

who leads our parenting team. Now, we told our youngest he could not have a phone until he could

buy a phone. And my mistaken

assumption was you have to have a plan, a monthly plan, and he didn't have enough income

when he was 11 or 12, so he couldn't buy a phone. But he did find that you can buy phones. You

don't need to buy them tethered to a plan at discount stores.

And so he found siblings who had old phones lying around that they didn't use.

He found stores that would sell him a phone.

And he found Wi-Fi much sooner than I was hoping.

And we're creative.

He is a problem solver.

He's really good at solving problems, although sometimes his solutions aren't the best. Now, this is a difficult thing. And there's no one size fits all, but you've done so much research and study of this. You've counseled so many people. What's your take on kids and phones? Well, the question I asked parents is why does your child need a smart phone?

There's an angst that somehow children are going to get behind socially, emotionally,

emotionally, or even technologically in age today if they don't have something like that. If they're not savvy around technology, but really

there's a natural, it's been created so natural that we can catch up super fast as humans.

And you experienced that in your family because you drew a pretty firm line and your kids

are now beyond the teen years. Yes, and they're doing very, very well. Technology, there are tech

people in our home. And I've seen this over and over with families

that it doesn't take long.

You can see a toddler start to understand how to use a phone, and you can see 90-year-olds

pick it up pretty easily because it's been designed, crafted in a way that our brain will

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