Is your kid actually ready for a phone?
Twelve signs that have nothing to do with their birthday, four hard stops, and the sentence that ends the “everyone else has one” argument without a fight.
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What’s on it
Eight pages, plain language, nothing to install. Print it or read it on your phone — it’s built to be scored in one sitting while your kid is at school.
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Readiness signals, scored
Things you can actually observe this week — how they handle being told no, what they do when they’re bored, whether they tell you when something goes wrong. Score it and you have an answer instead of a feeling.
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Hard stops
If any one of these is true, the answer is not yet — no matter how old they are or what their friends have. These are the ones I’d want a parent to see before anything else.
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The script
Word for word, what to say when they tell you every single person in their year has one. It’s short, it’s not a lecture, and it doesn’t make you the villain.
A warning about the test
Roughly half of parents who run it get an answer they didn’t want. That’s the point of having a test rather than a mood — it doesn’t move because your kid is being charming this week, or because you’re exhausted and it’s easier to say yes.
Why one more checklist
Because the advice you’ve read so far told you to “consider your child’s maturity” without telling you what maturity looks like at eleven. This tells you exactly what to look for and what each signal means. It is specific on purpose.
It’s free because it’s how you find out whether the way I think about this is any use to you. If it is, there’s more. If it isn’t, keep the checklist anyway.
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