[dicriseg]

My child is 11 and starting middle school next year (US). They walk to and from school. They have an iPad and a PC at home, with a lot of freedom, but I also have pretty solid DNS filtering for ads, malware, and some other junk. Social media isn’t allowed, and their email account is forwarded to us. iMessage is allowed contacts only but it’s just a matter of asking us. We want some oversight. But no phone - the iPad stays home, and they have an Apple Watch that lets us keep in contact, know where they are, but has no real distraction apps and no camera. We don’t really know when we’ll allow a smartphone but not soon.